Insane state of today's advertising part 3

Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by kbart on Friday September 01, 2017 @03:09AM (#15146724)

"And you can't even install ad blockers on the phone."

Nonsense. I've been using Firefox + uBlock Origin on Android for years. There are even browsers/add-ons that can disable JavaScript completely, but I find it too much of a hassle.

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by erikb on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:55AM (#15147066)

my mistake, can't edit my comment now. *iphone I mean

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by pmontra on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:41AM (#15147196)

"How to block ads on iPhone and iPad"

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iosapps/how-block-ads-on-ip...

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by briandear on Friday September 01, 2017 @07:38AM (#15147548)

Crystal for iOS as one example. Safari provides support for adblockers in both mobile and desktop.

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by shakna on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:52AM (#15146437)

Firefox Mobile, uBlock Origin.

Adblockers are here.

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by _pmf_ on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:29AM (#15146575)

Or Brave on Android; it's basically indistinguishable from Chrome (or whatever the Android standard browser currently is called).

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by bnolsen on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:47AM (#15147394)

Just tried this. Other than having to redo all my forums passwords again this browser looks to be a winner. On my phone firefox ran very slowly and hogged too many resources.

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by boyce on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:12AM (#15148054)

Try nightly - 57 feels like it has big performance gains on my ageing 1+

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by devcpp on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:00AM (#15146468)

Or root and AdAway if you're looking to block them in other apps as well.

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by peteretep on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:02AM (#15146479)

My iPhone has them just fine, and Android being less locked down makes me think it probably does too

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by new299 on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:57AM (#15146677)

It's possible it's more likely on Android.

However I don't think it's a given that it will be prompted by Google, or will continue to be the case.

Google is an advertising company. Android, does not make money through licensing. It makes money by being a vehicle for advertising. Apple on the other hand, make money through selling products. Advertising (on the web) shouldn't make much difference to them, and helps put pressure on the competing platform as well as Adblocking being a potentially valuable feature to help sell their products.

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by erikb on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:55AM (#15147069)

How? I can't install plugins into my Chrome on iPhone 6s.

And you can't switch the default browser so it only helps in 30 % of the cases (when you are not inside Facebook/Twitter/etc and when you are not clicking a link that opens the default browser)

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by PeachPlum on Friday September 01, 2017 @03:50AM (#15146862)

But you can install Brendan Eich's ad-blocking Brave browser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by erikb on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:56AM (#15147070)

I'll try this one on all my phones. Thanks.

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by winterlight on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:25AM (#15147147)

My browsing experience on a mobile phone stepped up greatly since I started using Firefox Focus. You don't even need to mess around with plugins because ad blocking is already a built-in core feature.

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Re:Insane state of today's advertising part 3 by ljcn on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:51AM (#15148292)

As others have said, now is actually a really rich time for ad/tracker-blocking browsers:

* Brave

* Firefox Focus

* Ghostery

to name but three.

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