Ad blocking in Vanadium?

Laurent

TalentedQuill Sorry for you... use brave for YouTube otherwise, even comments are disabled. I only use it and it is multiplatform

Laurent

Xtreix Oh yes I read the first comment too quickly, I didn't mind that it was for YouTube

TalentedQuill

Xtreix UBlock Origin is no longer available on Chromium, gorhill has removed it. Only uBlock Origin Lite, which is the MV3 version, is available on the Chrome Web Store.

This is false. I was able to right now go to the Chrome Web Store and install ublock origin.

Xtreix

TalentedQuill You're right, it's because it was unavailable during a period, gorhill had removed it, I guess some users complained.

m4ri0g

TalentedQuill
this is how can be done.
get a raspberry pi, install pihole + tailscale (vpn) connect your phone to your vpn, configure pihole as dns and voila, all your add will be blocked by pi-hole anywhere you are. from within vanadium.
it is actually better than installing an app. or an extention which may increase your attack surface.
other alternative is use proton vpn and enable ads and malware blocking.
as for youtube.. use newpipe. do ~~not open it in your browser, unless that browser is brave but you do not want to have browsers suggested. so~~

GrapheneOS

Xtreix Vanadium has a proper network-level ad blocking implementation. It does not have complex dynamic rules or cosmetic filtering via CSS at the moment. YouTube ads can't be blocked with declarative network-based filtering but rather require invasive changes to the site which are regularly changed to keep up with it changing.

Firefox doesn't support sandboxing on Android and using a fork of it doesn't change that. It doesn't enable a sandbox since it doesn't have one, let alone the 2nd layer of sandboxing offered by the V8 sandbox and modern exploit protections.

Velocity9490 Vanadium has a real adblocker. It does not have injection of JavaScript and other dynamic features required to bypass YouTube ads.

Laurent DNS filtering can't block YouTube ads anymore. It will eventually likely become impractical for extensions to reliably work around it without getting blocked.

patienttruth99

GrapheneOS today I learned that Vanadium has built in adblocking!

I found the toggle in the settings. What list does it use?

Xtreix

GrapheneOS Firefox doesn't support sandboxing on Android and using a fork of it doesn't change that. It doesn't enable a sandbox since it doesn't have one, let alone the 2nd layer of sandboxing offered by the V8 sandbox and modern exploit protections.

What does the page I get when I go to about:processes in IronFox mean ? I can get the same thing on Firefox for desktop. In fact, I discovered that I can open about:processes in Firefox for Android because I voluntarily tested it, I'm sure I couldn't do it before, what does it mean ?

Velocity9490

GrapheneOS This is what I was talking about:

GrapheneOS Vanadium has a proper network-level ad blocking implementation. It does not have complex dynamic rules or cosmetic filtering via CSS at the moment. YouTube ads can't be blocked with declarative network-based filtering but rather require invasive changes to the site which are regularly changed to keep up with it changing.

So no, not a full implementation of an adblocker like uBO or AdGuard.

Xtreix

GrapheneOS Yes, I reread the Mozilla documentation and actually got confused, but it's not super clear either, add to that that many people confuse the two topics, which leads to misunderstandings in discussions.

GrapheneOS YouTube ads can't be blocked with declarative network-based filtering but rather require invasive changes to the site which are regularly changed to keep up with it changing.

Yes, then the adversaries adapt, it's basically a game of cat and mouse.

GrapheneOS

patienttruth99 It's enabled by default and the toggle is to disable it per-site. It uses EasyList + EasyPrivacy as the baseline and also EasyList Germany when the German language is enabled as part of work towards adding support for a bunch of language specific filters.

GrapheneOS

Xtreix Multi-process is not sandboxing. Firefox doesn't have sandboxing in any form on Android.

GrapheneOS

Velocity9490 Not having scripting and not injecting CSS or JavaScript into pages doesn't make it not a real adblocker.

DeletedUser370

It does not have complex dynamic rules or cosmetic filtering via CSS at the moment.

Does this also prevent blocking ads in search engine search results? I'm seeing ads in Duckduckgo but I think they were being successfully blocked in Vanadium at some point?

GrapheneOS

DeletedUser370 They should be blocked all the time but the lists we use can take a while to get updated after changes happen, especially for sites which aren't extremely widely used like Facebook.

Unknown-Phallus

TalentedQuill Your Skilled Ꭴuill would have to Download Vanadium Source and build it with your particular customizations as it relates to the ⨿Block⁰.......
However You should get accustomed to making modifications on a constant basis, as your Mouse is deeply pursued by Kitty Kat! 😁

Bronzing7407

Xtreix thanks for this. My Samsung/LineageOS tablet died and I got a good deal on a Pixel Tablet, so made the switch. Love having my tablet and phone match, except I relax with some YT videos before bed many nights and needed an ad free option. IronFox is now dedicated to YT for me, Vanadium for anonymous browsing, and Brave for sites that know who I am (Amazon, banking, etc.)

landordragen

Bronzing7407 wouldn't you be better off with NewPipe, Tubular, PipePipe, GrayJay, ... ?

Bronzing7407

landordragen maybe, and thanks for the question because now I can check those out. My default is generally to use a browser rather than install an app. So many apps, so little time! But defaults are meant to be overridden.

BaronAfanas

Bronzing7407 I use grayjay, since the others had trouble with YouTube's blocking of adblocking.

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