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I haven't seen an ad on any of my devices in like 4+ years, nor have I paid for any monthly subscriptions.
Say what you'd like about Google and Android, I'm not exactly singing their praises or anything, but I don't think that's possible with Apple.
You can. The subscription services are optional and mostly geared towards lazy bastards like myself. I could manually back my phone up to any Mac or windows machine but I pay for the convenience of iCloud storage instead. The other subscription services are purely entertainment driven (Music, TV+, Arcade, etc.) and not required to have a fully functioning device.
It is. NextDNS and Brave Browser. I usually am not a fan of Brave but it's the best browser on iOS
Would you mind sending a link about NextDNS configuration?
https://nextdns.io/
All iOS browsers are actually safari under the hood, until the EU forces them to stop being huge pieces of monopolistoc shit. And brave is run by a shady POS company, maybe worse than apple, which is saying a lot
I know but Brave has an built in adblocker and many more features which are pretty useful. Also Brave isn't as shady as everyone makes it sound.
A big tech company is using your data for profit. That's as shady as it gets
Source? As far as I know they collect less data by default than Mozilla does. And that whole Brave rewards thing is opt-in
https://lemmy.ml/post/4077809
As an apple user it is definitely possible. I don’t even have a million work-arounds. They’re pretty direct