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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by prophesi on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:30PM (#20290377)
Install one of the many chromium extensions that block/obfuscate such tracking.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by walterbell on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:04PM (#20290572)
Sadly not an option on iOS, which is the reason for using Brave in the first place.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by prophesi on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:10PM (#20290606)
Honestly, blocking ads/trackers on mobile has always been a tricky business. You could set up Pi-Hole on your home network. Or see if there's something similar to this on iOS: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dnsfilter.android/
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by beatgammit on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:38PM (#20290758)
It's actually one of the reasons I use Android and why I'm looking at alternatives, like Librem 5 and PinePhone. I don't like how Apple doesn't allow competing browser engines on their phones and tablets (only skins that use Safari underneath), and I don't like Google's privacy issues on their phones.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by prophesi on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:14PM (#20291191)
Yeah, I've pre-ordered the Librem 5 for those same reasons. It will likely absolutely pale in comparison to Android/iOS features, but I'm wanting to go full "Off To Be The Wizard" and help develop the lacking apps.
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by dymk on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:01PM (#20290874)
Ad blockers have existed on iOS for years.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by walterbell on Thursday June 27, 2019 @09:19AM (#20294098)
Thanks, it seems much faster than 1BlockerX with Safari. Is there a way to whitelist sites?

Brave allows granular blocking on a per-site basis, with a simple in-browser UI on iOS. Do Safari content blockers work with Brave on iOS?

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by hombre_fatal on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @10:04PM (#20291150)
1Blocker X is probably best in class.
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