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0 pointsbboygravity1y ago0 comments

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

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biot1y 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.

bboygravityOP1y ago

I'm talking system-wide add blocker which also blocks in-app ads.

girvo1y ago

You absolutely can run an ad-blocker.

bboygravityOP1y ago

You can block ads in iPhone apps?

girvo1y ago

That wasn't what was asked, but yes you can (through the various VPN-based ad-blocking apps)

lynx971y 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.

Brian_K_White1y ago

I have youtube premium and still need an ad blocker. What a stupid remark.

maest1y 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?

lynx971y 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.

chipsrafferty1y 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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hu31y 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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