Video playing, ad that scrolls, two lines of a story, the bottom popping up with notifications every few minutes over the top of more scrolling ads.
Yay internet.
Mobile Firefox + Adblocker add on.
I hate using mobile to read articles
Submitted 1 year ago by Polpota@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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buru5@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dejf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can confirm, mobile Firefox experience is amazing these days. There is a curated list of addons you can install, which includes uBlock Origin, but if you want access to every desktop extension, you can use Firefox Nightly.
zoe@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Nightly or Beta, with custom add-on collection
sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Too crash prone for me. I use a foldable phone and it’s a 50/50 chance of crashing when I’m transitioning from the cover screen to the inner screen. Even the stable version has dodgy foldable support.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even then, some sites are just awful.
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Welcome to the internet, version 2.0!
Anything those eyes of yours can pay for will be shown.
We’ve got banners, and pop-ups, and autoplay ads!
If some of it’s of interest to you, you’d be the first!scoops@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People who don’t use ad blockers get a MUCH different experience. Especially on mobile. I made the decision to pony up the cash for an app called AdGuard years ago. It hosts its own VPN locally on your phone and filters traffic through it. The first time I learned how it worked I thought “Damn, that’s a really good idea!”
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 year ago
For those who don’t know you can also set a custom DNS on most phones now and have it block ads that way or my personal favorite and self host a network ad blocker like a pihole on an old PC and do it potentially for free.
But honestly the companies making it easy for people to adblock and asking for little money are so good and I deeply support them even if it means paying them cause it’s almost necessary in modern internet
FireTower@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hazdaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mobile internet is hot garbage.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It used to be “what are a thousand lawyers chained to the bottom of the ocean?”
These days I’d say “what are a thousand managers and execs chained to the bottom of the ocean?"
It’s not the editors doing this shit, it’s not the developers deciding this shit.
It’s the managers and fuck most (but not all) of them
Dragon@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Its foss and supports extensions like:
moitoi@feddit.de 1 year ago
Kiwi is Chromium what’s an issues for the open web. Firefox+ ublock origin. And if someone want a F-Droid link, you can search for Fennec.
nosurprises@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s strange that the only download link lead to Google Play. I’d expect them to be available in F-Droid.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Second comment: use privacy enabled browsers, either Firefox or DuckDuckGo browser
KrapKake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Set one of these providers as your private DNS in phone settings… if iOS allows it. I use the Mullvad. For the rest of you on android use FF+uBlock AND set your DNS.
base.dns.mullvad.net
dns.adguard-dns.com
9b3afc.dns.nextdns.io
technicalogical@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Somehow I’ve lived my life without knowing about mullvad or the other private DNS providers. Albeit, all of my other phones have been rooted and could use a modified hosts file.
Had to come back and thank you, and the others that mentioned mullvad. Sitting in a waiting room right now and I’m and to play this stupid euchre game without a stupid 10 second ad after every hand. Such a better experience.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Adblock via DNS is your friend.
TruTollTroll@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It reminds me of the scene from Ready Player One when Desmond is saying in his board meeting that can put up to 80% adds on the screen before inducing seizures!!! I always wondered if it was a joke or live dark humor about where the internet is going …
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One thing I’ve learned from history is that there’s plenty of examples of things that happened that writers wouldn’t use for fiction because audiences wouldn’t believe it.
I sometimes wonder who is willing to put up with this shit if I end up on the internet without an ad blocker. I don’t need to put ad blockers on a list of essential tools because the internet without ad blockers reminds me very quickly to go get one.
The fight against ad blockers is IMO actually a fight against having a useful www because the more intrusive an ad is, the more likely I’ll just go do something else.
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 1 year ago
Yeah, I will not be a part of being forced to watch ads. Whatever they do to force ads, there will be a way around it and if a site makes you use chrome so they can force ads, then I won’t be doing shit with your site.
My local utility company makes you use chrome to pay your bill online. I call every month and waste someones time taking my payment. I refuse to put up with bullshit.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I guess nobody is going to talk about the 61 open tabs on a mobile phone
thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
61? I currently have 442 open tabs.
itsralC@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Checking in with… checks Infinity tabs
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Some people have apparently never heard of bookmarks.
stephenc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mobile is garbage. It is a barely controllable platform with horrible UI, horrible ways of doing things, touchscreen that is incredibly irritating to use, etc. I cannot understand how we, as a society, decided this would be our future. I get the idea of basic communication anywhere you go but internet? You can’t wait until you get home to do internet? You can’t download data and information to a more simple and usable device like we had back in the Palm Pilot days that came standard with a stylus and a sane way to enter data instead of jabbing at tiny squares with our fingertips?
We need to go back.
Spzi@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s probably one reason why it became a habit to stay on Lemmy, often not even opening the article.
coffeemonster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
AdBlock and RSS
thefool@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I haven’t used RSS except circa 2000 when I tried adding a feed to my browser one time.
Do you have any recommendations on how to get a newsfeed set up. Are there any recommended apps?
coffeemonster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Feedly is the easiest currently . And the free tier is great.
WillardHerman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thank you for introducing me to RSS!
I’ve never checked it out before now.
coffeemonster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes its back from the old internet and fixes a lot of the new internet lolz
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wish I could vote you up 1000x for the RSS recommend. I’ve never stopped using it but only on the desktop (elfeed).
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yeah, and if you press the history back button to get away from that ad-ridden nonsense, they intercept that to “offer” more “articles” to “read” or better said they try to hold you hostage to serve even more ads to you. Should be illegal, but money.
CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Mobile FF is great but you can go one step further and us adblock dns as well.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you have a good recommendation? I’ve been using DNS66 forever and it works ok but some of the best IP lists are dead
CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’ve been using dns.adguard.com for several months with no issue.
KrapKake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Any of the below, personally using the first one.
base.dns.mullvad.net dns.adguard-dns.com 9b3afc.dns.nextdns.io
Freeman@feddit.de 1 year ago
Because of this I use Pocker by Firefox.
I know that its not Open Source and there are probably better programms but I kinda like it for its simplicity but there are also recommended articles if I have read all my saved ones.
Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
AdGuard Pro on iOS is decent, but no where nearly as good as uBlock.
EqMinMax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
heavilyinfuriating
shandrakor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dns blockers for the wiiiiin!
Presi300@lemmy.world 1 year ago
use brave mobile, it has a built-in adblock
elscallr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or Firefox, that way you’re not still stuck using a Chromium based browser.
LongerDonger@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I went full Firefox a few weeks ago. It’s been mostly fine but there are a few weird hitches that Chromium-based browsers just don’t have. So because of that I currently think Brave is a good recommendation for most people.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Or mull browser, fennec, firefox focus, duckduckgo, etc.
NPC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I pretty much exclusively use InstaPaper for my mobile reading.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Neat app. Thanks for the recommendation.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Use a Firefox based browser with ublock origin. I use mull
Kir@feddit.it 1 year ago
Also, Pihole on your network and bye bye ads
Z3k3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good solution if you never leave the house
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 year ago
Add nginx to the mix (simply put a TLS proxy between DNS and the outside world) and you’ve got a DoT server. Because it’s TCP you don’t need to consider DNS amplification attacks and Android has native DoT support that’ll work anywhere.
What you need is a domain (any domain will do) pointed at your WAN IP and a valid HTTPS certificate. Put this in your Pihole’s nginx config:
stream { upstream dns { zone dns 64k; server 127.0.0.1:53; } server { listen 853 ssl; ssl_certificate /path/to/your/letsencrypt/certificate.pem; ssl_certificate_key /path/to/your/letsencrypt/key.pem; proxy_pass dns; } }
The hardest part is getting Let’s Encrypt set up, but you can use common DNS APIs to get those without ever forwarding port 80 to your Pihole. You do need to forward port 853 of course.
Then open your phone’s settings and set the secure DNS to custom, and point it at your WAN IP. You’ll now have PiHole support wherever you go, without a VPN.
The only downside is that you’ll have to turn it off in some hotspots that still use DNS interception to redirect you to their portal page rather than the standard protocols, but it’ll work in moet cases. Some routers also deal with port forwards weird (not forwarding packets destined for the WAN IP if they’re coming from LAN) which requires some more messing around, but I’m pretty sure those issues are becoming rarer and rarer.
If you’re feeling fancy you can set up DoH as well, but that’s more involved.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
VPN back home, or set up DoT with adguard home instead of pihole.
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
or setup some vpn fanciness
(or expose your port but yikes)
Companion1666@lemmy.world 1 year ago
61 tabs
Damn! With Firefox, it will automatically close all those tabs.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Don’t say that. Firefox will not close your precious tabs kept for distant future(which you probably won’t open). Firefox keeps older tabs into an inactive tabs section and thats it. It makes easier to scroll through tabs
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Is your device running out if Ram?
Seismograf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you’re on Android, check out Blokada. System wide AdBlocker, no banners anywhere.
Cyberpunk3000@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Polpota@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh! I’ll check that out. I have Firefox and I use YouTube revanced but I’d like more blocking capabilities for when I oops and open up chrome.
icedcoffee@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Internet going very well!!
kambusha@feddit.ch 1 year ago
I’ve been encountering adblocker-blockers more frequently these days. Just a race to the bottom, isn’t it?
thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s an endless game of cat and mouse, like many other tech “battles”. Ad tech blocks the ad blocker, ad blocker unblocks the blocking, rinse and repeat.
Ultimately it’s hurting the media industry a lot more than the ad blockers. All of those resources spent on fighting ad blocking could be used to make better content. Ad blocking, however, if often developed by volunteers who enjoy the challenge.