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What are those 3?
vanadium ad-blocker
Firefox
Firefox Beta
Firefox Nightly
Graphite
Thx, i thought FF Focus is one of them, so i was unable to guess the third :)
(so you maybe got a 4th option for ff :) )
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GiftedAccess there's also Firefox ESR if you want Extended Support.
BTW using Protonvpn does the job blocking --ads --malware with netshield give it a try !
xtrox I don't find ProtonVPN blocks my ads. Am still using Nextdns which does a much better job.
I don't think Firefox ESR exists for Android.
Firefox Focus could be a 4th browser if you like.
VPNs like ProtonVPN often do some ad blocking. But not a lot. It won't block many of the annoyances. And a few of them get paid to NOT block certain ads. That's why I don't really trust free adblock by DNS services where the user cannot customize. They may block some things today, but don't keep up with changes as quickly and will never block somethings. Plus they can only block entire subdomains, not granular down to just the page elements.
I prefer Firefox addons like ublock origin that I can customize with a lot of lists to block ads using filter lists in 34 languages and regions, and ranging from malvertising to just minor annoyances. And then I can further customize to block ads, banners, and info popups that nobody else is blocking, by using the element picker. Can't do that at the DNS level.
[deleted] Hmm... wonder if you could run dnsmasq on the phone itself and set the dns to localhost? That would actually produce an effective replacement for hosts based adblocking without needing root access and save you from the latency overhead of a remote adblocking dns.
intelligence run dnsmasq on the phone itself and set the dns to localhost
That's a great question. I did something similar on a nonrooted OnePlus phone. Before I switched to grapheneOS there was no way to truly disabled Google's connectivity check through Google's gstatic server.
But there was a system level setting to define the server. So I used Tasker and python to run a simple web server that returns the proper http code. It worked great.
Of course, a simple python web server is lightweight compared to dmsmasq. But should still be possible.
What use is the security of Vandium if you can't read due to auto play videos ?
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Octo2 Use DNS filtering.