[muppetman]

Adblocking via the browser is the best option if it's available. All the games the kids play on their iPad try to insert ads, track them, all that sort of stuff and DNS based Adblocking stops that. My wife's iPhone isn't subject to ads when she's reading the news in Safari. On my Google Pixel I don't see ads in browsers either, Firefox I use uBlock but even the Google Newsfeed uses Chrome for webview, so DNS adblocking stops me having to see the sponsered stuff in there.

There's so many places other than "the browser" to see ads, to even question that seems like not really having knowledge of what the Internet is used for in 2024. Edit: Sorry that's a bit rude, I just meant maybe you don't use it the same way a lot of others do. Sorry for sounding obnoxious and rude.

DNS blocking doesn't stop stuff like ads in Instagram, or Youtueb etc, but it certainly helps in a lot of other situations like Ads in the Imgur app etc etc.

[readscore]

> There's so many places other than "the browser" to see ads, to even question that seems like not really having knowledge of what the Internet is used for in 2024.

I understand that many people use apps and smart TV sticks, but I'd forgotten that many have ads. I use some apps, but none that have ads.

My family use apps but say that they appreciate targeted ads.

[muppetman]

Yea sorry I've updated my comment to reflect the fact the way I phrased that was quite rude - my apologies.

For the silly games my kids play on their iPad, blocking ads means they can "skip" ahead quite often instead of being forced to watch an ad before they're allowed to try again/progress to the new level. They're subject to enough advertising with Youtube anyway, just from all the content they watch that's subtle advertising.