Before you say it: I do use Adblock on my computer but sometimes YouTube updates their site to make those not work, and sometimes I browse on my phone which doesn’t have Adblock
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Trying to focus on my second screen with mature gay porn playing on it instead.
Mature porn: All parties discuss contraception, STI protection, and consent before playtime begins
Firefox + uBlock Origin on both desktop and phone = no ads for many years. Default settings on both, no extra work.
How does one get extensions on mobile? I went into Firefox and couldn’t see any extension section in the settings.
It’s directly under the hamburger menu button.
Couldn’t find it, I’m on iOS.
Apple doesn’t allow you browser choice. It’s not actually Firefox in that context. It’s webkit with a different skin.
iOS is different because all browsers are basically Safari but with a different skin. You can install Firefox but the version with the more privacy built in called Firefox Focus. It installs an extension called Firefox Focus. It will block ads in Safari and Firefox.
You need to enable it under settings > apps > safari > extensions.
Add SonsorBlock to that and it’s just perfect
No criticism, just curious: why no ad block for the phone?
All I know is YouTube has more advanced ad delivery methods than DNS blocklists can filter, so you need client-level blocking. This only works if you use browser plugins or 3rd party client apps. YouTube’s first party app will always have ads.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, this is just my understanding.
It sounds like you have a level of understanding beyond me. I just have have browser ad blocking.
I don’t know how, my phone is old-ish and almost out of storage space, and I’d like to replace it with a new phone when I can decide on what suits my needs and I can splurge the money on it
Edit: also, most of the time I can just refresh the page on my phone and the pre-video ad on YouTube goes away. This doesn’t work for mid-video ads, which I just got in the middle of a song on YouTube 🙃
That makes sense. Firefox has some good extensions, if you just want it browser-based on your phone, and f-droid has some whole-phone options. Just FYI in case you’re able to take advantage of one now or at some point in the future.
Edit: Also, does your phone have an SD card slot? If so, that can be an inexpensive way to boost storage and get more life out of your phone.
Laughs in uBlock Origins.
Laughs in YouTube Revanced.
Recently watched random vid and creator said he’s gotta be careful because, drums…youtube added a strike to video for adult content.
The only adult content in said video was youtube ad xD
youtube revanced or newpipe. there’s options for those who believe.
Do you have ad personalization turned off? I have a theory that when you have ad personalization turned off YouTube will serve you the worst ads in hopes of driving you to turning on ad personalization.
This is what we get for turning personalized ads off. At this point I may as well just setup pi-hole and adblock the router itself.
The classic red band movie trailer between two clips of Paw Patrol…… I keep an eye on what my kids watch in YouTube, but I can’t imagine the amount of traumatized toddlers who got hit by some jump-scare filled gorefest trailers in the past years
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Honestly it’s really concerning the number of hyper sexualized ads I’ve seen. There are still plenty of other ads, but the fact that those “I’m an AI with no filter” or ads that are just straight up animated porn with the camera pointed slightly off screen is concerning.
Sex sells, whatever, but there’s some of these ads that I can almost guarantee are being shown to children that should normally be in a sex shop behind a curtain, but here they are being shoved into a childs phone.
The silliest ones I’ve seen now are ads for mobile games that put censor stickers over the “parts” of fully clothed women. (Yes, even in the game, they’re fully clothed)
