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by bboygravity 454 days ago
You can't run an ad-blocker and you browse the web with JS turned on in Safari, but your Iphone is secure?

yeah ok
3 comments
biot 454 days ago
You can run ad blockers in mobile Safari. This one works great: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-privacy-browser/... -- it's both a browser itself as well as acting as a content blocker for Safari and does a fantastic job at blocking ads.
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bboygravity 451 days ago
I'm talking system-wide add blocker which also blocks in-app ads.
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girvo 454 days ago
You absolutely can run an ad-blocker.
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bboygravity 451 days ago
You can block ads in iPhone apps?
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girvo 448 days ago
That wasn't what was asked, but yes you can (through the various VPN-based ad-blocking apps)
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lynx97 454 days ago
I don't need an ad-blocker. I have YouTube Premium. And I really don't need Safari that often, actually. Besides, if we're really talking JS==insecure, 99% of users on desktop and mobile are insecure. I am sort of on your side, because I spend most of my web-time in Lynx in a tmux. But if I were to argue against JS, people would call me a weirdo. That war is over. I fought it until 2010.
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Brian_K_White 454 days ago
I have youtube premium and still need an ad blocker. What a stupid remark.
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maest 454 days ago
> I don't need an ad-blocker. I have YouTube Premium.

This cannot be your actual stance.

You know there is a lot more to the Internet than that one website, right?

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lynx97 454 days ago
I already said I dont use Safari that much. If you hadn't shortened the quote your reply would be moot. Maybe I need to rephrase, to make you happy: I don't use the web so much on my iPhone. The primary ad-offender in my world is YouTube, which I fixed by paying for Premium.
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chipsrafferty 454 days ago
You know there aren't really ads on websites anymore, right?

There are ads in algorithm apps like YouTube, tiktok, Instagram, mobile games, streaming service "poor" subscriptions, etc. And there are paywalls. But the vast majority of interesting websites don't have ads anymore.

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HeatrayEnjoyer 454 days ago
Surely you jest.
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worthless-trash 453 days ago
Ever feel like you're talking to some gaslighting AI ? The Grandparent comment seems like it is one of those moments.
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hu3 454 days ago
> And I really don't need Safari that often, actually.

Yeah you're an exception.

Thankfully people like you don't get to decide what EU rules as best for people.

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