Some other browsers (I use Kiwi because Firefox is buggy on my phone) also let you use ublock, and sometimes I wish I couldn’t use it because I hate ads so much I probably wouldn’t waste as much time browsing the net if I couldn’t block them :)
Kiwi in particular has full extension support, so I can run unhook for Youtube and some other stuff like dark reader. I’m sure someone will come up with some other extension that just tricks Reddit into working in a mobile browser if there is enough demand.
Guys, sign up for and use NextDNS. Sometimes you have to disable it for asshole companies like ticketmaster, but for the most part you won’t see any ads anymore. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for ads served from as content from the website, like Facebook does, and possibly the Reddit app. I have never and will never install the Reddit app, so I can’t comment on that one.
I run a DNS based ad and tracking blocker on my home network (similar to Pihole) through my router, and it’s amazing what apps are totally incapable of running with those restrictions in place. Amazon’s app doesn’t work, neither does Wells Fargo. Apps that do this are absolutely predatory and need to be regulated. They harvest my data in shady, insecure, annoying, obtrusive ways, and if they or their customer’s mishandle it, I have essentially no recourse, except for maybe a $0.32 payout as part of a class action lawsuit.
Would I have given my data to Cambridge Analytica? No. Did Facebook? Yes. Was it mishandled? Totally. What recompense will I get from it? Nothing! Will it happen again? Absolutely.
every god damn company has an app. “Get a bonus if you shop using the app”, etc etc etc.
it’s all about tracking us, snatching data and of course that little app icon is “easy” to click to spend more money, right?
I hate it so much
with reddit gone i’ll only have my bloonsTD app and my 2 factor auth for a couple of services (net banking and a few other things)
im nearing the point where i dont really see the use for a smartphone
I legit have floated the idea of ditching my smartphone several times. I hardly do anything on my phone anymore because of how awful and predator basically every app is now, even paid apps. I might as well just get a feature/dumb phone that has LTE and just set up a hotspot for my laptop.
You know what’s most fucked up about all of these types of practices? It’s that they had something great and have deliberately slowly destroyed it because of unchecked greed. Same with Facebook. They had a site so great that like 60% of the people on the entire planet signed up. They’ve been making money. Reddit and Facebook make millions of dollars a month. But it’s not enough for them. Nooo. They have to make billions. They have to make enough money to buy governments and amass as much power as small nations. The men running these companies are soulless. They try to fill the hole in their hearts with money, but it will never be enough. They’ve taken something that was amazing, something that benefitted billions of people, and destroyed it to serve their own selfish greed.
They can serve you ads just fine on mobile web, that’s not it. It’s that the app let’s them track your behavior far better than the web browser.
It’s both. Firefox for Android lets you run uBlockOrigin, effectively killing the ads.
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Ads on reddit are self-served. DNS can’t block that
Some other browsers (I use Kiwi because Firefox is buggy on my phone) also let you use ublock, and sometimes I wish I couldn’t use it because I hate ads so much I probably wouldn’t waste as much time browsing the net if I couldn’t block them :)
Kiwi in particular has full extension support, so I can run unhook for Youtube and some other stuff like dark reader. I’m sure someone will come up with some other extension that just tricks Reddit into working in a mobile browser if there is enough demand.
Guys, sign up for and use NextDNS. Sometimes you have to disable it for asshole companies like ticketmaster, but for the most part you won’t see any ads anymore. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for ads served from as content from the website, like Facebook does, and possibly the Reddit app. I have never and will never install the Reddit app, so I can’t comment on that one.
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I run a DNS based ad and tracking blocker on my home network (similar to Pihole) through my router, and it’s amazing what apps are totally incapable of running with those restrictions in place. Amazon’s app doesn’t work, neither does Wells Fargo. Apps that do this are absolutely predatory and need to be regulated. They harvest my data in shady, insecure, annoying, obtrusive ways, and if they or their customer’s mishandle it, I have essentially no recourse, except for maybe a $0.32 payout as part of a class action lawsuit.
Would I have given my data to Cambridge Analytica? No. Did Facebook? Yes. Was it mishandled? Totally. What recompense will I get from it? Nothing! Will it happen again? Absolutely.
me and my wife also quit using apps
every god damn company has an app. “Get a bonus if you shop using the app”, etc etc etc. it’s all about tracking us, snatching data and of course that little app icon is “easy” to click to spend more money, right? I hate it so much
with reddit gone i’ll only have my bloonsTD app and my 2 factor auth for a couple of services (net banking and a few other things)
im nearing the point where i dont really see the use for a smartphone
I legit have floated the idea of ditching my smartphone several times. I hardly do anything on my phone anymore because of how awful and predator basically every app is now, even paid apps. I might as well just get a feature/dumb phone that has LTE and just set up a hotspot for my laptop.
Chinese owners need a tiktok backup plan.
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You know what’s most fucked up about all of these types of practices? It’s that they had something great and have deliberately slowly destroyed it because of unchecked greed. Same with Facebook. They had a site so great that like 60% of the people on the entire planet signed up. They’ve been making money. Reddit and Facebook make millions of dollars a month. But it’s not enough for them. Nooo. They have to make billions. They have to make enough money to buy governments and amass as much power as small nations. The men running these companies are soulless. They try to fill the hole in their hearts with money, but it will never be enough. They’ve taken something that was amazing, something that benefitted billions of people, and destroyed it to serve their own selfish greed.