@orientalsniper@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world • 11 months agoReddit had/has plan to block mobile browsers in favor of their appmessage-square188fedilinkarrow-up1451arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squarePreston Maness ☭link17•11 months ago They can serve you ads just fine on mobile web, that’s not it. It’s that the app let’s them track your behavior far better than the web browser. It’s both. Firefox for Android lets you run uBlockOrigin, effectively killing the ads.
minus-square@Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•11 months agoAnd existing on a network with DNS blocking of ads performs similar It is 100% the spyware. There is a reason that stuff like the facebook app and the like have ridiculous permissions on platforms that even respect those.
minus-square@Starmina@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoAds on reddit are self-served. DNS can’t block that
It’s both. Firefox for Android lets you run uBlockOrigin, effectively killing the ads.
And existing on a network with DNS blocking of ads performs similar
It is 100% the spyware. There is a reason that stuff like the facebook app and the like have ridiculous permissions on platforms that even respect those.
Ads on reddit are self-served. DNS can’t block that