Don’t need it. Make a pi-hole server or use something like NextDNS.
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Stop using Reddit. It’s a miserable website anyways. I ditched it after Apollo shuttered and it actually made my life better.
Until today I had just deleted the app. Deleted my account now.
venure to say most people are using an app.
That's it, I'm definitely not signing up for Reddit now.
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although reddit Is a great place to ask for mechanic advice or get feedback on specific industry topics, I found it can be a time wasting habit and the users are very left leaning. I responded to someones question with a subtle joke in the response and reddit banned me for life form the group and also banned my other account. not sure how they know I had two different accounts. also if your replies are center or right leaning, you will get downvoted to infinity even if you gave great feedback. I dont care what reddit does because I wont be going there unless I have a specific industry question.
AdGuard does just fine on iOS.
When configured right, Adguard on iOS and iPadOS can block ads in most apps.
Edit: whoops, @krebphone beat me to it.
AdGuard is paid and a lot of ads found ways around it.
UBlock Origin is the gold standard of adblockers. Unfortunately since we don't got sideloading (yet) we can't use it on iOS, while Android users can.
Exactly, and, I would think they get relatively close to basically nothing from untargeted ads, they are useless.
The fact that the setting is still required within the EU because of GDRP rules should say more then enough about how truthful "it shouldn't be needed, little will change" is.
Basically, they are forcing users to surrender their privacy rights and allow them to be tracked.
How interesting...
How interesting...
And then man invented ublock origin. There was much rejoicing.
For those talking about ad blockers: this isn't about the ads you may or may not see. This is about Reddit collecting information on your site viewing/posting/commenting habits to build a profile of you, which is then sold to advertisers. Even with all ads blocked, they will be building that profile and selling it if you use the site at all. Combined with device fingerprinting and similar techniques, I suspect these profiles would be enough to uniquely identify most "anonymous" frequent users of the platform.
Their "we care about your privacy" talk is patently false.
Their "we care about your privacy" talk is patently false.
AdGuard does in most apps (although there are some exceptions like Youtube).
1) Download and install uBlock Origin on your desktop computer
2) Install Purify on your iOS / macOS devices
3) Whitelist any sites you want to support, like MacRumors
4) Done!
There's typically not much advantage gained by you using most apps versus these services' web interfaces.
2) Install Purify on your iOS / macOS devices
3) Whitelist any sites you want to support, like MacRumors
4) Done!
There's typically not much advantage gained by you using most apps versus these services' web interfaces.
I am glad I ditched Reddit back when their CEO was in a race to see how deep a hole he could dig himself into.
I preferred the Reddit app to Apollo and never saw what the hype was all about. This is coming from someone who preferred Tweetbot to Twitter, so I get how people could have preferences. But people are acting like the Reddit app is objectively worse and I just don't agree there. Collapsing comment chains is fine, tap targets are fine even for my large thumbs, I never even noticed animations, and how reddit displays home feed/ news feed stories certainly gets the job done.