Not entirely unrelated, but…as in Android lol
Recently I found a setting (via youtube) that completely blocks all ads, in app, online, pop ups - everything - all you see is a grey placeholder.
No annoying pop up videos and so on - I can’t tell you how much difference it makes - huge. Best of all it’s built in on most phones and NO ONE I know knew about it when I told them, I think it’s likely a feature they had to add but didn’t want to publicise (for obvious reasons).
Just go into your android connection settings, somewhere in there (the 1st page on my pixel6a) there is a setting called PRIVATE DNS.
Go into that, switch it from auto to on - bingo, bye bye ads. ALL ADS.
It’s easy to switch off and on, the only reason I’ve come across you’d need to switch it on is if you play mobile games - it blocks the videos to earn coins/point etc for that app - just flick it off before you play and back on when you’ve finished.
May be that you all know, but hey, if you don’t and hate ads you’ll be a happy camper!
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