• wazzupdog (they/them)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    System level dns filtering for me + ad block in every browser + Lucky patcher offline patch/patch to remove ads + modded clients for anything else. If ads were non intrusive, non invasive, and easily dismissible i wouldn’t have gone scorched earth.

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      4 months ago

      Sadly, DNS filtering does nothing for YouTube ads as said ads are hosted on the same servers as actual videos.

      Rest sounds good.

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            4 months ago

            And why’s that? I feel im fairly careful with my phone in terms of security. I see no more danger in rooting it than being logged in as admin/root on any of my home computers.

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              4 months ago

              your computers are much less secure in general but they also have different security assumptions

              phones are the pinnacle of security in this point in time. rooting them not only breaks but also breaks the security assumptions that apps rely on

              for example I can be sure that no other app has access in my data as an app dev. based on that assumption i might store secrets. which on android/iOS is totally fine (there are better ways but ok)

              you’d never make such an assumption on a pc app. you’d find another way. there’s no such thing as “my data” on desktop. hence you develop around it