• Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Hey habits are really hard to change, especially to change for the better! You can always start with a smaller scope, like “for this afternoon I won’t be controlled by alcohol” “this next 5 minutes I won’t hand to the tech oligarchs by looking at my phone” “for this meal, the sugar monopoly won’t own me” and try to build up more and more of those segments over time where the worst people in the world don’t have control over you

  • foodandart@lemmy.zip
    33·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, uBO for android phones and 1blocker for iOS devices… and only use browsers - not apps - to access shit online.

    Tha ad’s bullshit.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      2 months ago

      This is not necessary.

      Just use the adblocker dns service for your phone. Takes like 2 minutes, it’s free, and you’ll never see ads.

        • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          8·
          2 months ago

          It does, dns happens before the request to the server happens. So instead of connecting to the ad-server the dns says ‘the resource you’re looking for doesn’t exist’ and the ad never loads.

          • Viceversa@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            I’m sleep deprived and can’t for the life of me decipher, what I meant there 😀. But I feel I have meant something

            There’s another problem yet: a lot of ads nowadays use the main domain of the site as the source. So you can’t block it without blocking the site as a whole.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pub
      8·
      2 months ago

      Slightly more advanced, but Lucky Patcher is still handy for getting rid of in-app ads. Don’t use it on apps that can ban you tho (especially online games). DNS designed to block ads works too.

    • TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Thanks, I just swapped over to an iPhone and was getting fed up with the fact that it doesn’t lower my have real Firefox with uBO, didn’t know about 1blocker!

      • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 months ago

        If you’re using Safari you can still get uBO, it’s just called uBlock Origin Lite instead. It’s what I use, it’s quite good.

    • Mountainaire@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Switch to AdNauseam, a fork of uBO that maliciously attacks advertisers in the background with no increased data usage on your end!

      • foodandart@lemmy.zip
        2·
        2 months ago

        My one beef with AdNauseam is that for some reason on my system, it acts really wonky on youtube. Otherwise, it’s a gem.

        • Mountainaire@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Huh, weird, what does it do? I can’t remember ever experiencing any noticeable difference on YT when switching from uBO to AN!

          • foodandart@lemmy.zip
            1·
            2 months ago

            I would get that “adblockers are against the YT TOS” message. If I refreshed the page, it would work every third time or so.

            Weird.

            • Mountainaire@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 months ago

              Strange, I literally don’t know what this looks like! I wonder if another extension or add-on was interfering.

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    It’s like hitting prestige in a lobby shooter. Start back at level 1, but have the skills to make it to the top all over again, like a winner.

    Bud Light, prestige your beverage, prestige your recovery!