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As bad as I want to read past the first paragraph, it’s not even worth it to spend another second on this ad-ridden website.
by beacham 3y ago
As bad as I want to read past the first paragraph, it’s not even worth it to spend another second on this ad-ridden website.
- golergka 3y agoYou can just ask GPT-4 to summarise it instead. https://chat.openai.com/share/251675a4-7b46-470e-a14e-fe6cf3c4dd5e https://chat.openai.com/share/251675a4-7b46-470e-a14e-fe6cf3...
- jug 3y ago> This shift aligns with OpenAI's intent on building beneficial AGI, although the exact characterization of AGI seems fluid Ha! I like the subtle burn (and hint that OpenAI using AGI here is not carrying a whole lot of meaning other than hype)
- djbusby 3y agoCheckout uBlock Origin https://ublockorigin.com/ https://ublockorigin.com/
- cplusplusfellow 3y agoHow do you guys manage proper ad blocking on mobile? I haven’t gotten anything to work successfully (iOS).
- weberer 3y agoKa-Block! works for me on iOS. Its an extension for mobile Safari.
- shaunkoh 3y agoPihole works pretty well for me.
- baq 3y agopaid a few bucks for adguard pro and 1blocker waaaay back. currently using 1blocker with DNS override and it does work quite well.
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- stranded22 3y agoAt a network level, I have nextdns, and then AdGuard pro for the browser. This combination works for me
- mbakke 3y agouBO works fine on Firefox for Android.
- jshier 3y agoIf you use Safari, the blockers from the App Store work fine (I use 1Blocker). If you use a third party browser, they don't get access to Safari's blockers (for no good reason, it's all WebKit after all) so you'll need to use a browser that provides its own blocking in some way.
- paul80808 3y agoOn Android I use the insecure and questionable approach of Kiwi browser, which will run desktop chrome plugins including Ublock. Interested to hear if anyone has a better solution.
- SoftTalker 3y agoOn Android you can use Firefox with uBlock Origin... no? It's been a few years.
- b112 3y agoA lot of people left firefox on android, when they removed their prior version/codebase a few years back, and introduced an alpha quality product with no extensions, endless crashes, and bugs galore. It took them a year or so to even add back in extension support. and so many things lacked for a long time. I don't feel like using a product that is so horribly planned, amd executed. Sheer incompetence.
- rurp 3y agoraises hand I'm in this group. I finally gave up on mobile Firefox a few years back despite being a user and advocate for many years prior to that. The leadership and product decisions at Mozilla are indescribably bad and have done a huge amount of damage to formerly great product. Desktop Firefox still works ok, although it also suffers from too many bad product decisions. For mobile I use Vivaldi which is not bad. The adblocker isn't as good as uBlock Origin but is mostly good enough, and the builtin dark mode works really well.
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- ulam2 3y agoBlokada (non playstore version)
- jcampbell1 3y agoBrave works well enough for me.
- jerbear4328 3y agoJust flip on Reader Mode, it works great for me on most articles like this, though it is no replacement for a proper ad blocker
- jmacias 3y agoNextdns or pihole
- atestu 3y agoNextDNS (blocks ads in all apps) and 1Blocker for YouTube ads in Safari. Both free.
- Roark66 3y agoSame question for android.
- falcolas 3y agoFirefox Focus acts as a content blocker, and it cleaned up tfa quite nicely.
- gattilorenz 3y agoI use Brave as a browser, works decently well and is available for Android too
- KronisLV 3y ago> How do you guys manage proper ad blocking on mobile? On Android, I installed Firefox and uBlock Origin. It was pretty cool that the same thing I use on desktop Firefox (and other browsers) also works on mobile. Except that it seems like Chrome on Android doesn't seem to support extensions, so I basically can't fix that browser, which mostly prevents me from using it for anything. That said, I might soon get an iPhone (for developing/testing an app, which will probably also mean a MacBook, since they don't officially offer their software on other platforms), so I hope that things will work out there as well.
- harry8 3y agoPhone runs a wireguard vpn client, uses pihole to perform dns lookups [1]. I haven't noticed anything being slower with the vpn on vs off and using whatever the mobile phone company provides for dns. Pihole deals with that page well. Wireguard is pretty great. [1] I configure pihole to use a local unbound installation on the same machine but you don't have to bother with that at all https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
- Daviey 3y agoI also use Wireguard (and also Tailscale), but the battery impact is significant such that I only use it when specifically need to. How do you find the impact?
- harry8 3y agoI'm pretty new at iphone, like 3 weeks. settings->battery claims that it uses about 10% of my battery in 10 hours, or about as much as less than 20 minutes of firefox use. I previously had an ulefone armor 9 which had vastly better battery life with a 3+ year old battery after switching off battery saver hacks and making no effort eg running wireguard 24/7, than the iphone 15 pro, which kinda sucks pretty hard. Struggles to get through a day. No idea how much of that is my fault. Settings claims basically none of it is, but can it be believed? iPhone is super expensive for a device that does so many fundamental things so incredibly badly with fixes that must have been obvious for a decade. One example of many is the sheer idiocy of silent mode. My nokia 20 years(?) ago let you set it to silent for 2 hours so you weren't stuffed if you forgot to do it manually when the thing was over. Not iphone. iPhone pings when you go to bed and put it on charge when it claims to be in "sleep mode" which is just idiotic. Sucks if your partner was asleep and that's why you wanted it silent at that time. No way they haven't got feedback on that after what, 15 years of iphone? I took them a decade to replace the old silent mode switch that changes position to silent accidentally all the time for elderly relatives so I guess that's some kind of improvement but wow. Oh before people take it personally, android sucks. And those are our only choices other than no longer participating in society.
- orangepurple 3y agoAdAway can install itself as a VPN provider on your Android phone for the sole purpose of modifying traffic and blocking content. It is not actually a VPN. https://adaway.org/ https://adaway.org/
- hugocbp 3y agoFor iOS I use Brave. Not as good as desktop uBlock Origin, but good enough. Haven't found anything more effective on iOS yet.
- bigstrat2003 3y agoI use Brave, which has built in ad blocking.
- joquarky 3y agoAlso Brave lets you disable JS globally and then enable it on a per-site basis. The UX is nice; the switch to toggle JS for the current site is right under a drop-down menu in the URL bar, and it remembers your settings for each site independently.
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- mhitza 3y agoThe Orion browser might be an answer https://browser.kagi.com/ https://browser.kagi.com/ I haven't personally tried this browser as I'm on Android but heard of it as I'm a Kagi subscriber.
- wincy 3y agoI finally broke down and pay the $5 a year for AdGuard on iOS. Even blocks YouTube ads and haven’t gotten the “three strikes and you’re out” notice on that yet so I’ll keep using it as long as it works. I basically never see ads.
- hereme888 3y agoBrave or Chrome browser with your own Nextdns.io DNS setting. Brave specifically also offers to remove YT ads its mobile iOS browser. Worked for my wife, but she'll be switching to Android soon anyways.
- k310 3y agoI have been using purify, but it's like 5 years old and seems to be easily detectable by anti-adblockers. I got several as they went on sale, and am trying AdBlock Pro right now, on the theory that newer and more up to date ones will more effectively anti-anti-adblock. I found AdGuard Pro in my extensions. Must have been on sale, as it's the pricey "no subscription" version of the product. Will try if the above doesn't work out (I expect that it will)
- bazmattaz 3y agoI use Brave Browser on iOS. But I also have Safari with Adblock enabled - it’s another app you need to download.
- seydor 3y agoThe owner should quit her business and get a job at a bigtech corp
- tomjen3 3y agoNo reason to, here is an AI generated Summary (thanks Kagi): - OpenAI recently changed its core values from ones focused on thoughtfulness, impact, collaboration to ones focused on artificial general intelligence and scale. - The new core values were changed without explanation and raise questions about how core they truly were. - The top new core value is an "AGI focus" but OpenAI's definition of AGI has shifted from superhuman to average human-level intelligence. - OpenAI was originally founded to build beneficial AI but has shifted to a for-profit model, which led to co-founder Elon Musk's departure. - The company now describes itself as focused on building safe and beneficial AGI. - OpenAI's goals and self-descriptions have changed over time along with its shifting business model and leadership changes. - Questions remain around what exactly OpenAI means by AGI and its commitment to ensuring AI safety. - The new core values list comes across as vague marketing language. - OpenAI's focus now appears to be primarily on developing general artificial intelligence for commercial purposes. - The article raises concerns about OpenAI's lack of transparency and consistency in its stated goals and values over time.
- aksss 3y agoQuestions remain around what exactly OpenAI means by “open” and “ai”.