Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start
by pdimitar on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @06:14AM
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Finally a good point in this mini-thread.
Yes they don't do it as well. However, Safari claims to block some trackers by default which is still a win for the average consumer who won't ever fiddle with settings.
Safari allows you to use an adblocker (Firefox Focus). Chrome on Android doesn't have such settings and I suspect it won't ever have them. They plan to add adblocking but knowing Google, they'll use that feature to axe their competition, not to protect their users.
As for me, I'll just setup a VPN in my Mikrotik router and will add all widely known DNS blacklists to it (~53000 hosts). As mentioned above, I am not too keen of my devices doing 17000 ad/tracking requests a day, Android or iOS.
So yes, sadly to this day people have to jump through hoops to take back some (most?) or their privacy and not donate their internet traffic to corps who only want to farm your data.
Yes they don't do it as well. However, Safari claims to block some trackers by default which is still a win for the average consumer who won't ever fiddle with settings.
Safari allows you to use an adblocker (Firefox Focus). Chrome on Android doesn't have such settings and I suspect it won't ever have them. They plan to add adblocking but knowing Google, they'll use that feature to axe their competition, not to protect their users.
As for me, I'll just setup a VPN in my Mikrotik router and will add all widely known DNS blacklists to it (~53000 hosts). As mentioned above, I am not too keen of my devices doing 17000 ad/tracking requests a day, Android or iOS.
So yes, sadly to this day people have to jump through hoops to take back some (most?) or their privacy and not donate their internet traffic to corps who only want to farm your data.