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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by d--b on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:34AM (#23868468)
No, this is for in-apps tracking, not the web.
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by square_usual on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:37AM (#23868487)
You can still run a system wide ad and tracking blocker on android.
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by kube-system on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:02AM (#23871257)
You can on iOS too. They're implemented as a VPN running at localhost.
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by rkul on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:42AM (#23868530)
Can you elaborate on your practice how you do it?
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by Asuchug4 on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:49AM (#23868575)
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/ https://blokada.org/
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by erklik on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:08AM (#23868679)
If you wanted to, although it is more effort, and more niche, you can install a pi-hole on your network blocking all sorts tracking, ads etc across all devices.

Although, for Android, there do exist apps that will do system-level ad/tracker blocking.

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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by halostatue on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:17AM (#23871445)
How do you install pi-hole for the cellular modem on a smartphone?
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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by erklik on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:21PM (#23903526)
You do not unfortunately.

However, what you can do is utilize a VPN into your home network where you already have a pi-hole set up. Doing so will route all your phone's traffic through your home network (and pi-hole) first. You'll have the same "ad protection" on the go as you would at home. I recommend checking out WireGuard.

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