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How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data (www.nextpit.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have Firefox with Ublock Origin, YouTube ReVanced, and a DNS-level adblocker to cover everything else; ads ain't chewing through shit on my device.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

YouTube seems to make the experience worse and worse for us, tho. Pages not loading correctly, adds still showing up before the video plays, page unresponsive several seconds every few seconds, ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you need a better adblocker. I'm not having any of these issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is better than uBlock origin?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Try enabling all the optional filters and then updating them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean... all filters? There is a ton. Why should that do anything? I actually looked at it and reset it to default, no change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Cause Ublock Origin works flawlessly for me and the first step towards troubleshooting is replicating the results.