News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web. Parent comment

Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by gpas on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:03PM (#30154304)
> on mobile (where adblocking isn't possible without modded APKs)

What's a modded APK?

Firefox and other browsers like Vivaldi have awesome adblocking nowadays. There are alternative frontends like invidious.

Newpipe is an oss app, perfect on Android. Vanced is very popular too but I never tried it.

But with nextdns I don't need any of those. Only newpipe because, besides the ads, having to keep the display on to listen to music while running is just stupid.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by aembleton on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:59PM (#30155156)
Vanced is a modded APK. It takes the YouTube APK and modifies it to block ads and sponsorship via Sponsorblock and lets you run it in the background with the screen off.

NextDNS doesn't block ads on YouTube because they're served from the same domain as YouTube videos.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a ... by gpas on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:00PM (#30156017)
Oh I didn't know Vanced worked that way.

And you are right. Ads are blocked by newpipe, nextdns in this case is worthless.

Sorry for the misinformation everyone.

[ Parent | on HN ]