Is there such a thing as a decent ad-blocker for Android?
It's occured to me that ads are responsible for probably half of my entire data usage. I spend more time scrolling past fucking reams of obnoxious clickbait bullshit than I do reading the actual article sometimes. Some sites are worse than others, but I can't exactly pick and choose what sites I visit based on that. Not to mention those cocking Youtube ads.
Being on a shitty tarrif, it simply angers me to think that I am wasting data so that these bastards can shovel vomit into my eyeballs. I'm actually paying for them to advertise to me. How do I stop it?
>>26103 I feel your pain. I recently spotted that an app I'd installed a few days before had managed to eat up around 2GB. Now I have to disable the data or connect to wifi before I start it up. The ads themselves are tolerable, but they appear to be fucking full HD video. Fuck, I can remember the times when ad networks insisted on a maximum payload of 40k.
I was about to say I think advertising companies should be made to pay for data that they use when sending you adverts, then it occured to me that that would violate net netrality, then it occured to me 'Is net neutrality protest actually a front for online advertising groups?'
>>26109 >If you use the app Newpipe, you don't get any ads. It's a lightweight YT frontend.
At least until Google gets monopoly penis envy again and blocks it because of a "broken user experience", which is in no way whatsoever a euphemism for not being able to cream off their ad money.
If you want to be really thrifty about it you could use a text-only browser. I've been surprised at how useable it's been when I've been stuck with flaky GPRS on a train or whatever.
