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by waschl 7 hours ago
It’s my daily news driver and the app I am spending most time in. Have to find ways to limit the amount of sources, though. FOMO is a factor.

Only annoying thing, but I guess out of this app‘s influence is that the embedded safari doesn‘t use the Adblock plugin. AFAIK that’s an iOS/Safari restriction. This leads to huge amount of ads on same pages I open directly in the app. Any clues maybe?

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You can try Wipr2/Filtr: https://kaylees.site/wipr2-whats-new.html

Based on the description it solves exactly your issue, but requires iOS 26/macOS 26.

Personally I use Adguard + their DNS. This combination is very good, but WebView blocking will be working with the DNS part, not content blocker. So alternative is PiHole.

Use Pihole.
NextDNS solves this.
I stopped using NextDNS when I forgot to cancel subscription and contacted then immediately to issue a refund. They ignored my request, were no answers at all.

I am not alone, this is a typical behavior. At least it was 3 years ago.

I use AdGuard DNS now.

Open in browser instead?
Sure that works, but it breaks the flow