As Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled in the future. They’re going to eventually ban adblockers for chromium. We need to quickly respond with alternatives to android, we must end this market consolidation.

    • Beaver@lemmy.caOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      11
      ·
      4 months ago

      Won’t stop google from putting in ads in android apps

        • Beaver@lemmy.caOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          4 months ago

          We need a safe home for ReVanced and to give google less of an argument for removing as it would be ran on a Linux phone os

        • tibi@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          4 months ago

          Netguard is also great. I set it to block all apps network access by default, and have a whitelist with apps that actually need it. It has significantly reduced the amount of ads and tracking significantly from my phone.

          • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            4 months ago

            Sorry but thats not true. A lot of seevices bake ads into their video signal. Neither a dhcp nor a dns can change that. You need to have something that reads that signal and decides on that.

      • smeg@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        4 months ago

        Ads have been in Android apps for 15 years, you can generally block them all with Private DNS