I’ve finally picked up an iPhone about a month ago, and have been loving the experience.
However I’m now thrown into an ad-full world again (I used to have a browser blocking many if not most ads on the android), so I’m wondering, what adblockers do you use (may it be safari extension or entirely new browser for my fellow Europeans)?
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Mullvad’s DNS filtering.
Blokada - works without VPN.
NextDNS is my latest approach and it’s working well.
Backing this post. NextDNS pretty much blocks everything, even ads in games. And in some games, you can tap the “watch ad to get X” and no ads show up, but you still get rewards.
NextDNS is the best choice imho.
i use Ghostery, works on Mac Safari also. Free and does the job
Pihole and tailscale.
PiHole with a VPN on the phone that connects to the LAN with the pihole, so far fewer ads.
How does that go battery wise?
No negative affects. It operates like any cellular/wifi connection.
I use a combination of PiHole via a VPN to my home server and Orion browser.
Its greatly improved my experience.
Brave browser does an okay job, but remember under the hood everything is just a re-skinned Safari browser. There are content blockers, but AdBlock sold out (allows ads) and uBlock Origin doesn’t work on iOS due to limitations Apple has in place.
Eero’s home network ad blocker paired with AdGuard. Works well enough. Although so many people have blockers now that even my favorite sites, which I whitelist, are tough to read because of the amount of ads keeping them in business. ArsTechnica I’m looking at you. Yeah, I could subscribe but I’m a cheap bastard. I’d rather be able to retire than pay for a site.
I liked to use a three tiered approach…
Back when we could jailbreak our iPhones I’d use this and overwrite the system’s hosts file. I still use it on my Mac, even if I can’t on iOS anymore.
A VPN is an excellent solution, but when selecting one, you have to read the privacy policy and NOT give the policy the benefit of the doubt. I’ve seen a few that give themselves permission to share your info while making it sound reasonable. I use lockdown personally.
For Safari Extensions, 1Blocker is what ai currently use.
Wipr because it has no subscription bs and has proper block lists for my country.
This! Wipr on phone and Mac. Pi-Hole in my home network.
And for annoyances there’s also Consent-O-Matic and SponsorBlock installed.
Great model, just tips, so I tip when I notice an update
I use Wipr in combination with NextDNS. For ads in Browsers and in Apps.
Pi-hole. Kind of annoying that you have to disable Private Relay for it to work but well worth not ever seeing ads again.
Don’t know if it’s better, but for free, Firefox Focus includes an ad-blocker for Safari.
I love Firefox Focus! The safari integration is great!
Firefox Focus with strict mode
