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To the author if they happen to see this. Please kill the auto playing video. If someone is listening to something else on their phone this always takes over and interrupts.

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TIL: people are still browsing the internet without an ad blocker.

Doesn’t even have to go that far. TIL people are still browsing the internet without disabling auto-play on their browsers.

Should be disabled by default tbh.

How do you use an actually effective ad blocker on the iPhone?

I use 2 and they work very well. No options for auto playing videos though.

1Blocker and AdGuard.

For 1Blocker I have everything enabled except adult content and scripts. AdGuard has everything turned off except for General.

These are just the free versions too.

I've been using this setup for a few years and it works close to 100% of the time.

I have Adguard and still get YouTube ads. Does 1Block fix that?

Yah. But for YouTube I use Vinegar. I don't use the YouTube app, prefer the mobile website.

If you're okay with merely effective, try using a DNS server based list from nextdns.io. This is not sophisticated like uBlock Origin, but it is effective. I use it on my phone and an old iPad in my kitchen that would otherwise be obliterated by the ads on cooking sites.

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