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Paid advertising on Elon Musk's platform now looks a lot more like a regular tweet.

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[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Please don't link websites that have full screen popups.

[–] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need to install an Adblock

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 year ago

Well Google is killing the web with drm. So don't use chrome!..

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I’ve got an Adblock. I have no idea anymore what sites have popups and which don’t. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If someone sees an ad without uBlock in the year of our lord 2023, they deserve what they get.

[–] NateSwift@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly one of my biggest gripes with my iphone. There are some adblock plugins but they don’t work nearly as well

[–] zeluko@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You wanted the walled garden, now deal with the walled garden.

[–] NateSwift@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

“I haven’t used an iPhone in years, I wonder if it’s actually gotten better like people said” was my motivation for buying this phone and it’s a mistake I’ll only make once

[–] CatBookCat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

is there a firefox app on iPhone?

[–] trynn@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

is there a firefox app on iPhone?

Not really. There's something called Firefox available and it's published by Mozilla, but Mozilla has to deal with Apple's restrictions on web browsers by using the webkit rendering engine and Apple's proprietary plugin system. So it's not real Firefox.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but Apple doesn't let you use adblocker on it. There's a specific Firefox app they released that has it baked in, so you'd have to use that instead

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use AdGuard. It’s been pretty good so far.

[–] Teal@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I second AdGuard. I have the paid version that includes DNS blocking. It blocks ads system wide, not just Safari.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no idea how you browse the internet with uBlock Origin. It's literally unusable to me. It's free, and you should always have it installed, it's simply essential.

[–] trynn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I have no idea how you browse the internet with uBlock Origin. It’s literally unusable to me. It’s free, and you should always have it installed, it’s simply essential.

Because uBlock Origin doesn't work on all platforms and browsers. Notably, it doesn't work with Apple's plugin system, so anyone using Safari or an iOS device cannot use it.