Even a fragment of the infinite is boundless. Hope always endures. 🌌
- 0 Posts
- 34 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 16th, 2023
You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.
The short answer is that the Google Play version won’t actually block anything because it breaks their terms of service. So that version just tells you how many trackers and what the trackers are. I still use some of those apps and even respect them (e.g. AP News, AccuWeather), but it completely boggles my mind how they’ve loaded so many trackers into their applications… 🫤
Longer answer: To actually block trackers and ads, you need to use a third party source to download the app so that it’s fully functional. By providing the app that way, they don’t have to abide by Google Plays rules.
The link above is for the F-Droid “app store” version, which is one of the more well-known “stores.” I highly recommend F-Droid. They host free and open source (FOSS) applications. For most everything you use, there is a FOSS alternative which will be ad and tracker free.
Want a simple ad-free calculator, go there. Want to watch YouTube ad free, go there. Want to download an ad free Lemmy client, go there. Etc etc.
Hurrah for high quality FOSS software!
Fortunately, you can block all those ads on Android. Check out Tracker Control: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.fdroid
That’s absolutely unbelievable to me. I block ads on everything. I just can’t handle it. For the few ad-based services that I pay for, I mute it for every commercial. Seriously, I just can’t handle it.
But… clearly tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of people do watch them… which makes a massively lucrative business. I’ll just never understand it.
When I need something, I look it up and get it. If i don’t need something, I don’t want to hear about it in any way, shape, or form.
Ugh.
10 billion. 😖
Fake news 404 garbage! I saw an actual factual article on Truth Social showing not only the sign on fire, but Newsome himself stopping fire fighters from gaining access. These fires are only happening because of the incompetent liberals pretending to run the state. The so-called progressives are stream rolling America into oblivion!
I tell her to be nice and to love her stuffies, but even the ones that are designed to be super tough somehow always manage to offend her and get their guts pulled out.