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In unrelated note, it's funny to be greeted with a 20 secs Ad video before seeing the 50 secs squid video you land on the site to watch! Ah.. Ads are ruining the entire web these days, and the experience keeps worsening.

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I couple of days ago I clicked a video on youtube, it was 48 minutes long, the "ad" preceding the video was 58 minutes long... at least I could skip it.

uBlock origin in the browser.

PiHole at home.

NextDNS mobile.

I’ll concede it’s an infinite game of Whac-A-Mole, but a game I’m willing to play

Doesn't work at all for the most dominant browsers -- mobile, unless you're one of those folks who never leaves the borders of home base and pups their own custom router (like opnsense, I do this but its a pain to set up and maintain, quite niche).

If only there were a popular browser that makes uBlock Origin brain dead simple.. it ain't Firefox, Safari, or Brave, of this you can be certain.

I didn't see any ads myself. Samsung Internet on my S21 Ultra (16gb) - a couple of their ad blockers installed.

Absolutely love it.

That's cool, what browser?

Samsung Internet :-) It's the default browser for Samsung phones.

What I've done in the past was to set up a wireguard VPN that also has pihole installed.

Great, except it will burn your battery on mobile.

I don't find that to be the case with wg - have actually tested this and found a ~1-2% difference in battery consumption over a full charge, all on lte (pixel 8, graphene). Openvpn, though - yeah.

Hmm, I wonder if graphene is different than stock Android. This doesn't jive with my experience, sadly (tailscale).

Definitely possible. Now I want to dig out a stock Android phone and retest. Aiui tailscale shouldn't introduce much if any load over wg, but I also wonder if you'd have different results with standalone wg.

BlockBear on iOS works well enough.

uBlock Origin works on Firefox mobile.

Can confirm. No ads for me on this site either.

https://sponsor.ajay.app/ also, can't believe I didn't discover it earlier.

Youtube Premium is the only subscription I pay for media wise, and it's fantastic.

Brave works great on both desktop and mobile. I have to add an exception to the ad blocker roughly once a month. I guess DNS blocking may be needed if you use spyware programs outside the browser, which I don't.

I use Brave on mobile and didn’t get any ads in the video.

One minor benefit to living in the UK – no ads on the BBC website.

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