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Best Mac Adblocker for PRIVACY and data protection? [MERGED]
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Vinegar is awful for YouTube. You can't scrub videos, you can't see a preview of the timeline whilst watching videos, and you can't see chapters.
Why do you say it is "shady"?
The risk of dying in a plane crash is 1 in 11 million. If you are using extensions from a well known developer with many good reviews in the app store then the odds may be even less than that you will have an issue.
Apple has increasing locked down their system and applications need access to some of those capabilities to work.
The advantages of using AdGuard in my case far exceed the minuscule odds that it might have a security risk. The same for all of the extensions that I use hundreds of times a day to enter passwords, take notes, automatically disable all cookies on websites, etc. Saves me tons of time. The savings are well worth the almost negligible risk.
or use another browser that can use something like ublock origin which is open source. you can bet that there would have been an uproar, especially in the open source Linux community, if someone found something even remotely fishy about it.
Queen6
macrumors G5
As is Adguard open source and trusted by Apple
AdGuard's view on the Open Source.
What some need to understand is companies are obliged to protect themselves from a legal standpoint. Therefore anything traceable back to the end user is classed as personal data, especially when dealing with high level regulation such as GDPR.
Is far easier for a company to state in their T&C's that they may capture some data while they have no intention of doing so, than the roles be reversed. As defending why they have breached their T&C's can get tricky fast.
Like all in life; one can make informed decisions based on facts or live in a cave in fear...
Q-6
AdGuard's view on the Open Source.
What some need to understand is companies are obliged to protect themselves from a legal standpoint. Therefore anything traceable back to the end user is classed as personal data, especially when dealing with high level regulation such as GDPR.
Is far easier for a company to state in their T&C's that they may capture some data while they have no intention of doing so, than the roles be reversed. As defending why they have breached their T&C's can get tricky fast.
Like all in life; one can make informed decisions based on facts or live in a cave in fear...
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splifingate
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I have both; legacy behaviour;
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Does anyone know how the Ad Guard iOS app works?
I noticed that it works perfectly fine and I think I never had to give any shady permissions, and so I wondered why that's not possible with the Mac version. Basically every thinkable app is blocked on iOS/iPadOS. I never get anything and everything runs super smooth.
I noticed that it works perfectly fine and I think I never had to give any shady permissions, and so I wondered why that's not possible with the Mac version. Basically every thinkable app is blocked on iOS/iPadOS. I never get anything and everything runs super smooth.
It has two main components: DNS based and safari extension.
For DNS protection, if you use Apple's native protocol, it uses DoH or DoT to secure your DNS enquiries to your selected DNS server. If you use Adguard's implementation, it will create a pseudo VPN which will filter all connections and block accordingly from the device locally and then pass it on to your selected DNS server.
For Safari extension part, it works almost exactly like the Safari on Mac extension. One is the content blocking API where it sends the blocked domain lists to Safari and the other one is the advanced protection which is used to block complex CSS using javascripts like as in YouTube ads.
If you're really worried, you can just use the content blocking from Adguard and leave the advanced protection off. Though, different websites are hosting the ads on their domains necessitating the use of advanced blocking methods.
Thanks! I will install AdGuard on my new Mac and see if I can get the same quality filtering, without enabling https-filtering/filter my entire traffic, this time.
If it works on iOS, it may work on macOS as well.
The problem with that Safari extension is that extensions are said to be unsafe and some sites might hack them. AdGuard has a whole range of apps, I'll have to check out if there's an alternative, that does what the extension for Safari does, but as an app your install on your OS. If I remember, there was such a thing.
Jay-Jacob
macrumors 6502a
I used have Adblock Plus for years then it just stopped blocking ads on some websites, mostly do popups, I keep getting too many popups. So I been searching around and install Adblock Pro (free version) to test it out. Is Adblock Pro any good or I should use free version of AdGuard? Is AdGuard better?
EDIT: I use Safari. Forgot to mention it.
EDIT: I use Safari. Forgot to mention it.
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MacBH928
macrumors G3
for browser? ublock origin i the gold standard. For safari Wipr is doing fine job for me.
for full device, you can change DNS setting on your device (or even router) to
free DNS adblocker by AdGuard:-
94.140.14.14
94.140.15.15
or ContrlD
76.76.2.2
76.76.10.2
or use mix of both
Jay-Jacob
macrumors 6502a
Queen6
macrumors G5
Another safe DNS server
208.67.222.220
208.67.222.222
Browsers using AdGuard & Ublock Origin, never see any ad's and all the better for it 😎 Privacy is a right, those that stand against or look to profit are easily defeated...
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MacBH928
macrumors G3
those name servers from OpenDNS do not block ads , the ones I listed do.
If you just concerned about privacy you can use 9.9.9.9 by Quad9
Queen6
macrumors G5
Am behind
Q-6
Am behind the GFW so things are different here, as said no ad's and no concerns....
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MacBH928
macrumors G3
China's lockdown in the Chinese police state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall.
killhippie
macrumors 6502a
I dont like Safari, never have so I use Firefox with uBlock Origin which works as more than just an adblocker, its more like a firewall for your browser, and works best on Firefox due to a API that Firefox uses, and I also use Facebook Container from Mozilla so even if I'm not on Facebook Meta cant grab any info about me as it blocks Facebook cookies hiding on webpages, I think uBlock dose the same but Firefox Container it also puts Facebook into a 'container' so it cant leak out and see what your browser is doing elsewhere if you do use Facebook on the web, which I do, I have friend scattered across the world and not all have iPhones oddly enough.
I don't use the Facebook app or messenger or any other social media apps, so when you close that container any Facebook scripts etc get removed from your browser for that session. Those two keep my info as private as I can be online as really there is no way to keep private online, I mean how many here use Amazon? I even put that in a container now. Many people use VPN's that are within the 14 eyes surveillance alliance, and Nord are so big now they are a target for hackers, and I think have been hacked twice. The best way to stay totally private and safe is probably use a virtual machine or dont go online at all.
I don't use the Facebook app or messenger or any other social media apps, so when you close that container any Facebook scripts etc get removed from your browser for that session. Those two keep my info as private as I can be online as really there is no way to keep private online, I mean how many here use Amazon? I even put that in a container now. Many people use VPN's that are within the 14 eyes surveillance alliance, and Nord are so big now they are a target for hackers, and I think have been hacked twice. The best way to stay totally private and safe is probably use a virtual machine or dont go online at all.
BotchQue
macrumors 65816
Yes, this started six weeks or so ago; I’ve also noted that every fourth video is actually an ad (they’re marked with “Sponsored”, at least for now). I’ve been experimenting with different things and taking notes. EweTube became fabulously wealthy over time, even paying many of their “content creators” a healthy salary (Doug DeMuro’s net worth is now around $18M), but that’s not enough for them anymore. Give Us Your Moneeyyyyy!!! moreMoreMORE!!!
Again, I see a lot more books in my future.
I have a whole-house blockade on YouTube cuz my 8yo had a problem. I setup a web service that I can pass a youtube URL to and it fetches it and drops off an ad-free mpeg4 video in a share my plex server picks up. If you just want to occasionally grab A Video, https://jouwbuis.nl/ is great.
they're using https://sr.ht/~cadence/tube/ as well, i believe.
they're using https://sr.ht/~cadence/tube/ as well, i believe.
hi, i have relied on Firefox Tab Containers to help me not ruin my whole day in ServiceNow. but i've fallen head over heels in love with Arc and had to do some experimenting but an Arc Space with a seperate Arc Profile is silo'ed sufficiently for my purposes. Safari's tab groups in combination with profiles seemed to work as well but i didn't test as closely as Arc.
i use AdGuard home running via Docker as the resolver devices get via dhcp, and then i use a TLS encrypted upstream resolver for AdGuard to use at CloudFlare. my gateway (unify dream machine) offers an ad-blocker as well and i've turned it on a few times but i'm more comfortable with AdGuard Home and CloudFlare's anycast resolvers that align with the posture of my homenets personally.