Setting up pihole or using a similar DNS based blockage of unwanted content is also really great. Some vpns will have this as an option which can make it easy. Doesn't necessarily protect you from all malicious stuff but it is very effective on dealing with ads and whatnot. Plus dealing with all of that on mobile devices can range from impossible to very difficult
It's gotten much better in the past few years ln mobile. Firefox for Android has Ublock installed out of the box. You just need to enable it.
And to block trackers in every other app you can use something like TrackerControl on Fdroid. Duckduckgo also has a similar application but I don't trust them and it's probably not open source
Oh yeah, I can very much recommend using a pihole, super convenient for those devices in a network that don't really have any direct way of doing this.
Also a good way of protecting other users in your network who might not be as up to speed when it comes to online privacy and security.
I've been using personalDNSfilter on my phone and I can read recipe websites again
I give the same side eye to a site that asks to turn off ad blocks as I do to a woman who tells me "We don't need a condom."
Leave some space for Jesus.
It may be a shared experience for men because I too have been tempted before.
Overriding lust with logic is a hard thing sometimes.
Having my lust be overridden with her toxicity worked pretty well though
I read this and thought, surely my numbers can beat that
Blocked since install
250,394 (8%)I haven't visited the official site in so long, I genuinely don't even remember how it looked like
Blocked since install
5,983 (5%)Fresh install of just 2 days. 3rd party frames, JS, and remote fonts disabled by default, alongside a fairly strict anti-annoyances config (https://blahaj.zone/@ShittyKopper/pages/usable-web)
Man I just love not seeing a red number when I go to a website, but that is a rare occurence these days.
My dirty secret: Never used an ad-blocker. I'm out here rawdoggin' the internet. No blinders no PPE
