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Comment by mnkyprskbd | Hacker News Reader

At this point, if you browse the internet without an adblock; it is on YOU.

When sites show me a bunch of ads and slow my machine with tracking then I just close the window. They don't want me to read their articles anyway. When a company shows you who they are ...

Except the same sites also attempt (with varying levels of effort and success) to punish users for it. None of them have an official stance of "if you want to control your bandwidth that's fine."

So when it comes to this bloat, publishers bear both fault and the responsibility to fix the problem. The viewer bears neither.

Yeah, regular and even respected media outlets are basically giving you the 2005 porn pirating site experience.

Victim blaming.

Well, he's right in the context of HN audience. But normies are people too, and so are children, and so are 90-year-old grandmas who want to stay in touch with younger family members. If we don't push back against the brainrot, it may very well run our society into the ground.

You're not a victim if you have choice.

How do you explain this to all 8 billion people? How do they all know this is possible?

*without

Yes, I just can't imagine why would one browser the internet without adblock.

It's not

It is

Not on mobile

I used to use NextDNS a lot but some things would get messed up so I'd have to sometimes disable it and then I got lazy and just have kept it off for like a year

On Android is there a better solution when using Chrome?

Not using Chrome. Mobile Firefox has adblocking on Android.

On iOS, you can use Orion by Kagi, which is webkit-based, but supports Firefox plugins. UBlock Origin for Firefox works well there too.

Or Brave. Or AdGuard.

uBlock Origin Lite is probably the best option, but in my experience mobile adblocking goes Firefox (with uBlock Origin) > Safari (with 1Blocker) > Chrome (with uBlock Origin Lite).

edit: Erp, actually, it seems mobile Chrome doesn't have extension support. I only actually use Chrome on a Chromebook, I assumed Android was comparable.

Almost any other browser. I've used Firefox and Brave on Android with adblocking

Firefox supports extensions (uBlock Origin, Video Background Play Fix - these two are enough for me)

most of the browsers have built-in adblockers, but I would suggest to stay way from browsers not supporting extensions

other browsers with (limited) extension support on Android - Edge (MS), Yandex (RU), Quetta (CN), Kiwi browser (discontinued, I used this, then switched to IceRaven FF fork, the UI still ain't as good, but at least it's developed)

yeah I got a lifetime license for Adguard (no affiliation) & been using that for three years now - it's been great.

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