I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
Any App that shows any ads gets deleted right on the spot. Simple as that.
Eh, I don’t care about apps that are just utilities I use every once in a while, but I’ve set up my network to be unprofitable for any advertiser.
How did you do that?
Whole home VPN and a pi hole
Simple yet effective.
When I started using NextDNS, I changed my mind about that. It’s a bit like having a pi-hole with you even when you’re not on your home network.
There’s probably a FOSS app that does the same thing without ads and tracking
DNS66 from F-Droid.
RethinkDNS might be good too. I think it’s more powerful, and it’s on F-Droid too.
Their content blocking seems to run on a cloud service that you connect to via their app but it looks like it works the same for the end user.
It’s pretty multifaceted. I’ve got a half dozen on-device blocklists enabled, along with some app-specific filters.
Due to some Android quirk I’ve also been unable to use their DNS