Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act

Re:Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act by Iolaum on Saturday September 01, 2018 @09:44AM (#17891795)

Ehm? You can just install firefox from the playstore and then ublock origin. (Privacy Badger is also recommended).

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Re:Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act by jhoh on Saturday September 01, 2018 @10:31AM (#17891993)

Did just that for a long time but recently switched to brave. Chromium just feels way more snappier on Android and I prefer its UI much more over Firefox which does many things that annoy me (e.g. ignoring theme-color tags).

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Re:Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act by philipov on Saturday September 01, 2018 @10:46AM (#17892070)

What options are available for iphone?

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Re:Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act by scarface74 on Saturday September 01, 2018 @12:13PM (#17892489)

iOS has a built in “content blocking” framework. Third party Ad blockers basically submit blocking rules to iOS in JSON format and the ad blockers work both in Safari and in apps that use the newest WebView.

The advantage is that the third party ad blockers aren’t able to intercept your web browsing directly and can’t invade your privacy.

I use 1Blocker.

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Re:Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act by Rjevski on Saturday September 01, 2018 @05:09PM (#17893888)

1+ for 1Blocker, although I also run Adblock Plus in parallel.

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Re:Tech-Support Scams Prompt Google to Act by fasafsaf3 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:25AM (#17896330)

Firefox Focus is free.

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