Hey everyone, I’m still pretty new to using my GrapheneOS phone and have been slowly transitioning to a more privacy oriented technology lineup than I previously did.
I searched for clients on Google and found “Total Adblock”, “Adblock”, and “Adblock Plus” but I’m not quite sure how to audit an adblocker for security flaws or malicious intent. I also would prefer to install apps through the F-Droid store and learn how to compile from source code on mobile (if that’s possible on GrapheneOS or if that’s even something desirable)
Thanks for any help! Been lurking a lot on Lemmy and have really enjoyed the energy in the community. Definitely has made learning Linux and the countless times I’ve had to fix my Arch system much more enjoyable. GrapheneOS has been quite stable too other than the phone having interfacing problems with my cellular provider’s network…
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For the browser, use Firefox (Fennec or Mull in F-Droid) with Ublock Origin. For anything else, honestly if the app has ads you should avoid using it anyway.
Any advice on adjusting to a search engine like Searx or enhancing how to use DuckDuckGo since Fennec comes with it?
Is there a gospel-like resource on Search Engines and using particular query delimiters? Just been tough reading some of these documentation pages with legion jargon words
if you want to configure Fennec to use Searx, set the search engine URL to https://searx.example.org/search?q=%s
Other than that, I only have one tip for non-Google search engines - always set the correct region.
I have tried Blokada and RethinkDNS already (I guess DNS66 is no longer maintained - I may be wrong) but finally zeroed in on PersonalDNSFilter.
I don’t see it being mentioned much - but IMHO it is much more lightweight and customizable than the other two.
I point to Cloudflare DoT for DNS, and use the OISD blocklist, and that’s all I need for device-level blocking ( I already use Firefox + uBO in my Android device so I’m good on that front).
https://www.f-droid.org/packages/dnsfilter.android/
RethinkDNS.
Before adblock, how about changing your search engine?
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Adguard dns
or mullvad dns
Is there a reason nobody recommends dns66 of fdroid? I uses adaway for many years with root. But the rootfree version never really worked for me. Dns66 replaced it.
It’s old and outdated. Look when the latest version has been released
Crazy! Still works better than the newest version of adaway, though.
adaway is a classic hosts based ad blocker, usually have effect for in app ads. for ad in webpage, i suggest firefox with ubo installed
Do not track app in iOS; Rethink DNS in Android
Blokada
Blokada works fine, but download the .apk from its Homepage, the version in the Play Store is a, by Google, “decaffeinated” light version. Google hate adblockers.
I used adguard with nextdns
Set custom dns to Control D (p2.freedns.controld.com).
Does anyone use Block This!. I’ve been using it for years but I hardly see it come up in these posts as a suggestion.