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Adblock Client for Mobile? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by gronjo45@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hey everyone, I'm still pretty new to using my GrapheneOS phone and have been slowly transitioning to a more privacy oriented technology lineup than I previously did.

I searched for clients on Google and found "Total Adblock", "Adblock", and "Adblock Plus" but I'm not quite sure how to audit an adblocker for security flaws or malicious intent. I also would prefer to install apps through the F-Droid store and learn how to compile from source code on mobile (if that's possible on GrapheneOS or if that's even something desirable)

Thanks for any help! Been lurking a lot on Lemmy and have really enjoyed the energy in the community. Definitely has made learning Linux and the countless times I've had to fix my Arch system much more enjoyable. GrapheneOS has been quite stable too other than the phone having interfacing problems with my cellular provider's network...

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[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For the browser, use Firefox (Fennec or Mull in F-Droid) with Ublock Origin. For anything else, honestly if the app has ads you should avoid using it anyway.

[–] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any advice on adjusting to a search engine like Searx or enhancing how to use DuckDuckGo since Fennec comes with it?

Is there a gospel-like resource on Search Engines and using particular query delimiters? Just been tough reading some of these documentation pages with legion jargon words

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

if you want to configure Fennec to use Searx, set the search engine URL to https://searx.example.org/search?q=%s

Other than that, I only have one tip for non-Google search engines - always set the correct region.