How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare?

Re:How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare? by mschuster91 on Friday February 26, 2021 @01:05PM (#26277781)

Yeah. I'm on a tablet - about 60% of the horizontal space is lost to padding and ads/whitespace, and after a minute of reading a video moves in bottom-left with no close button, scooping up 25% of the screen.

Effectively, only 30% (!) of the surface are used for displaying content. What an utter disgrace. And the data volume that is wasted for all of this nonsense...

There's a reason why mobile ads are so much more expensive - it is extremely hard to block them. Chrome and AOSP webkit don't support any kind of adblocking plugins, and editing /etc/hosts requires rooting (which gets ever harder and harder) or weird VPN/fake VPN solutions that have their own massive security and battery life implications.

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Re:How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare? by BrandoElFollito on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:40PM (#26280152)

There is the possibility to block them via a pihole.

I never tried it myself so I do not know about the effectiveness and false positives.

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Re:How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare? by jfim on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:23PM (#26281808)

Pihole works pretty well. I have it set up on a VPN, and the difference between regular internet and no ads internet on mobile is pretty impressive. As a bonus, it blocks ads in native apps too.

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Re:How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare? by mschuster91 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:48AM (#26284526)

Pihole doesn't work on the road, also it is a blanket solution - I can't choose to selectively allow ads (e.g. in games).

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