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muelltonne@feddit.orgM to Technik@feddit.orgEnglish · 5 months ago

How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data

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How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data

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muelltonne@feddit.orgM to Technik@feddit.orgEnglish · 5 months ago
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Online advertising accounts for as much as 48 percent of the mobile data used in each page visit, suggests a new study.
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    Reminder that e.g. Firefox mobile has full extension support und as such can run uBlock Origin.

    DNS blockers are nice, but they can only do so much against tracking without overblocking.

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      Yeah, Firefox on mobile is great. It’s horrible if I have to use stock Chrome for anything, ads everywhere, layers of ads, fullscreen popups, the horror

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        Just don’t use stock Chrome then.

        For me it only opens if I have to click some Wifi portal confirmation.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      Not on iOS I don’t think.

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        I got excited for a second.

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          Yeah. I regret the iPad purchase. I should have gotten the pixel tab…

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            I use “video lite” & mullvad dns blocking for my youtube and that works quiet decent.

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          Try the Orion browser , it has support for extensions, including uBlock

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            Can install all extension from mozilla or even google chrome store. But almost no work.

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              uBlock seems to mostly work for me. Better than nothing

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      Reminder that e.g. Firefox mobile has full extension support und as such can run uBlock Origin.

      Calling it full extension support is a bit misleading. Some desktop extensions do not work on mobile Firefox, although most work

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      Great! How do I add add-ons on iOS?

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        I didn’t know about iOS - Firefox only seems to allow this on android unfortunately.

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        Move to EU )

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