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> Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers There are many subpar adblockers available both built
by Shank 1mo ago
> Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers
There are many subpar adblockers available both built into browsers on iOS and as extensions. uBlock Origin Lite for Safari remains the best mobile adblocker on iOS, I suppose.
- Cider9986 1mo agoUBlock lite extension on Safari blocks ads on YouTube? Is Brave not better?
- anon7000 1mo agoWipr is the best adblocker on iOS that I’ve tested. Indie dev, gives you a lot for free, has a way to block outside of web views too. Big fan, I never had consistent ad blocking experience on iOS until I used it
- brynnbee 1mo agoSearch result ads are some of the most harmful ads, and Google's ads in particular are probably the number one cause of fraud, scams, and malware on the entire planet. It's a shame that Firefox whitelisted these, but I'm sure they did it both because Google pays for their existence but also Apple themselves probably wagged their finger for some reason.
- unselect5917 1mo agoI don't know why people still use Google. They've sold out and literally been documented reducing search quality to serve more ads. I use https://search.brave.com https://search.brave.com by default everywhere and for things even they don't want to show you, there's https://yandex.com https://yandex.com. I only use google as a last resort.
- brynnbee 29d agoI super rarely use it myself these days, basically just for images, because it still seems like the best of terrible options for images. Everything else is asking ChatGPT to search for me and clicking on sources to verify if its important
- alisadev 29d agoTry https://4get.ca/ https://4get.ca/ It has all the search engines combined in one (you can simply switch between them and see all available results).