Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.
Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.
Highly recommend setting up a PiHole. It may not be quite as comprehensive as uBlock, but it cuts the ads way down, and it’s not something that browsers can easily bypass. You do have to make sure to shut of DNS over HTTPS, or setup a separate solution for that to tunnel into PiHole.
aaaaaaand then there’s Android.
Android will not remove your default DNS, and will only use added DNS servers as additional rather-than instead of.
There are free apps that make localhost VPNs on your device to bypass this that force your network to use a chosen DNS server.
This is also a built-in function of Tailscale, setting Tailscale’s DNS to Pihole or Adguard, and were you running wireguard or openvpn already, you could use them as entrypoints as well.
Mullvad and other paid VPN services often also offer to use DNS servers that blocks ads, tracking and malware.
Pihole has always worked as expected on my Pixel phones. To the point that I have to drop off of our wifi to visit some sites when they don’t load correctly. Pihole is happening at the router level though, not a setting on my phone. Unless Android starts tunneling around it (I wouldn’t put this past Google), then all traffic will continue to go through Pihole since it’s going through our router. Any device connected to our network has Pihole as its DNS.
Not sure that’s right on all phones. Browsing on my Pixel 6 shows noticeably fewer ads when I’m at home compared to anywhere else.