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How I block all online ads (troubled.engineer)
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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (8 children)

To quote someone from HN:

There is nothing special about the Troubled Engineer's setup. It's mostly a matter of using open platforms. With Firefox on the desktop and Fennec on Android (Graphene), you get full uBlock Origin support and therefore never see any ads anywhere, even on Youtube. On Android, there is also NewPipe that offers "free Youtube Premium" (play in the background and download).

It's really just uBlock Origin, a DNS blocker, and a few other small tweaks for YT. I use NewPipe on Android and Invidious instances. At this point I only see ads when setting up a VM and open the browser for the first time and forget I need to install uBO.

[–] RiQuY@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

If you need SponsorBlock too, consider using PipePipe.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm still using revanced. Is that not considered good anymore?

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Do you see ads you don't want to see? If not, it's good enough.

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