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  • Voroxpete
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    3 months ago

    Switch to Firefox. Install Ublock Origin. Never see one again.

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      3 months ago

      are there browsers even without adblock extensions that allow popups? I thought that was eradicated in mid 00s.

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      3 months ago

      Same on chrome, ublock does it’s thing.

      Also duckduckgo on mobile is pretty ok at it, fandom wikis still pop up videos and shit though

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        3 months ago

        I specifically recommend Firefox because Google’s recent changes (depreciating manifest v2) will make UBO less and less effective over time on any Chromium based browser (which is basically every browser you’ve heard of that isn’t Firefox). So if you want the best ad blocking experience, Firefox is the only real option going forward.

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            3 months ago

            iOS uses Safari for webview and does not allow any other browsers, so other “browsers” you see on iOS are just Safari wrapped in different skins. That means their usual extensions wouldn’t work.

            There’s a system-level content blocker feature that can block ads for Safari in iOS, but I don’t know if there is anything quite comparable to uBlock Origin available.

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              2 months ago

              orion browser is webkit based but supports firefox/chromium extensions, so it works with ublock

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        I literally haven’t seen a pop-up that I didn’t need to manually enable in years. Didn’t realize they were still an issue…