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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by matheusmoreira on Monday March 09, 2020 @10:16PM (#22532158)
Proprietary ad blockers cannot be trusted. It is better to use something like AdAway and Firefox with uBlock Origin.
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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by rndomsrmn on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @09:10AM (#22535102)
A dnscrypt-proxy setup with https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/tree/master/d... goes a long way!

For anything that is not blockable on DNS level one should use uBlock Origin from Gorhill.

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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by 01CGAT on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:28AM (#22534270)
For WifiMask VPN I use the following to block ads & malware: https://github.com/Trellmor/bind-adblock
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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by jsjddbbwj on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:35AM (#22533756)
And what's good for iOS? I've tried Firefox Focus, but you can't customise what lists it uses, and the lists it comes with are not that good.
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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by chimen on Monday March 09, 2020 @10:45PM (#22532300)
Even that setup fails: https://blog.dnsadblock.com/you-are-still-being-tracked-even...
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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by mrob on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:18PM (#22532460)
Already fixed in uBlock Origin: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.25.0
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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:29AM (#22534278)
Looks like sites use first party trackers too for some reason, see the pixel at the end of another posted article: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-opt-out-illusion/ (it's fully packed with trackers though).
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Re:Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect us... by nabeelms on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:24PM (#22532488)
That issue was fixed in the latest release of uBlock Origin. That's why it required the additional permissions for DNS.
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