Youtube blocking is out of control. If they somehow think you might be blocking ads, they are blocking video. Yes, I run ad blockers, but YouTube is whitelisted. Yes, I have safe browsing feature on my router, but Youtube is whitelisted.
It's a power grab to sucker you out of $14 per month, and they can shove that where the sun don't shine.
There are too many workarounds... just takes an extra click or two...
If you pay for YouTube Premium, YouTube videos will be ad free if you are logged in on your computers.I do pay for YouTube Premium and I use that primarily on my phone. I was getting tired of the ads all the time. Back to back ads. An ad every few minutes. Especially when listening to music.
I have seen some longer ads, but they always have a "skip" option available after a few seconds, so not too worried about 15 minute infomercials.
The most annoying part of the ads is when they play randomly mid-video. Ads at the beginning are only mildly annoying.
If you pay for YouTube Premium, YouTube videos will be ad free if you are logged in on your computers.
I was using AdBlock Plus and getting the warning, switched over to uBlock Origin and the warning no longer manifests.Huh I haven't seen this warning yet and I'm using uBlock and play DJ sets in the background while working
Give Brave a try?I'd be a lot more excited about an ad-blocker for Android that ACTUALLY WORKS CONSISTENTLY without being data-pilfering malware that's potentially even worse than the ads at the same time!
Windows 10 Pro (for the moment) can still be locked down with the exception of the Bing/Edge related crap directly from M$ which is annoying enough as-is!
Throw adguard dns on it, works great. Caveat: it works better if you put it on the router above it (note: subject to being at home).I'd be a lot more excited about an ad-blocker for Android that ACTUALLY WORKS CONSISTENTLY without being data-pilfering malware that's potentially even worse than the ads at the same time!
Windows 10 Pro (for the moment) can still be locked down with the exception of the Bing/Edge related crap directly from M$ which is annoying enough as-is!
Give Brave a try?
Firefox + ublock origin, NoScript, and dns66 on top of that, cause why the fuck not?I'd be a lot more excited about an ad-blocker for Android that ACTUALLY WORKS CONSISTENTLY
Firefox + ublock origin, NoScript, and dns66 on top of that, cause why the fuck not?
DNS66 is a separate program that uses the vpn slot on the phone to blackhole ad requests. Using the three programs/addons I mentioned has a lot of overlap, and something /may/ be able to be dropped. I haven't felt like fooling with it cause it hasn't caused me problems, and I've never seen an ad on android. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, or something like that.I'll give it a go.
DNS66 is a separate program that uses the vpn slot on the phone to blackhole ad requests. Using the three programs/addons I mentioned has a lot of overlap, and something /may/ be able to be dropped. I haven't felt like fooling with it cause it hasn't caused me problems, and I've never seen an ad on android. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, or something like that.
Throw adguard dns on it, works great. Caveat: it works better if you put it on the router above it (note: subject to being at home).
The speed of the DNS? It's fine/normal/expected for DNS. Not a lot to go wrong with that. Anyone telling you their DNS is faster is stupid.How's the speed?
Some people I know were talking smack about how much faster/better/smarter their <insert DNS of choice> was than the "crappy" Xfinity/Comcast default I was using SOOOO I decided to compare again since to be fair it's been a couple years.
Believe it or not Xfinity wins YET AGAIN (no matter how much we hate them) ... the only ones that came close were Google and good old Open DNS. (this is using 100% my own equipment including modem not Comcast's)
Lots of stuff is, just not legally.Youtube recently complained about my adblocker and requested I turn it off (or they wouldn't let me use the site). I didn't actually realise I was blocking ads on YouTube, but I guess I was, as once I turned adblock off I started seeing them and recalled I used to get them at some point in the distant past but at some intervening time stopped seeing them (presumably it was when I installed or updated the adblocking plugin, though that probably happened at a time when I wasn't much of a user of YT so didn't notice it was also blocking YT video ads).
I assume YT recently decided to crack down and stop people using adblockers. Bit annoying as I'd gotten used to not having the ads, while not realising I was actually blocking them. But it's just the way the world is, I guess. Nothing is for free.
The speed of the DNS? It's fine/normal/expected for DNS. Not a lot to go wrong with that. Anyone telling you their DNS is faster is stupid.
Android itself seems to trip over itself with third party DNS configured within the OS. It does fine if it's using a DNS provided locally and *that* returns junk for ad A records. Idk why, but it hung all the time when I had it configured on the phone itself.
I mean, every DNS query should have a <20ms or so response time. If you can't match quad 8 or opendns 95% of the time, you're not trying very hard and probably shouldn't be used.Believe me depending on where you are your DNS choice in Windows *(or in the router itself) CAN bog things down getting results back to you. (and somtimes limit the results you see)
It's a definitate first-world problem though no doubt about that!
I don't know what you want out of a browser anyways. What is so good about Crome that is not in any of the Chromium based browsers, other than the extensive tracking that is.I wasn't impressed. Thanks anyway though.
Also all Brave is, is one more "Chromium" based browser. Just like pretty much everything else mainstream besides Firefox.
Show me a browser that works better than Chrome (and I mean really!) and I'll try it.
Hasn't happened yet despite a lot of talk.... In fact Chrome works so seamlessly when set up thoughtfully (with authenticator app!) you almost forget Google is the evil empire ROTFL.
Fair warning, NoScript was a hassle when I tried to use it, some sites it was like a guessing game trying to figure out which scripts I had to enable if I wanted it to work right.I'll give it a go.