<story><title>The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web</title><url>https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/fbi-recommends-ad-blocker-online-scams-b1048998.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madars</author><text>Or, in other words, FBI now recommends using Android :-) It&amp;#x27;s baffling how much better uBlock Origin + Firefox experience on Android is compared to any iOS ad blocker I have tried. They kind-of work but let half of the ads through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>happybuy</author><text>I develop a popular iOS and macOS ad blocker that block almost all ads[1] including all YouTube ads.&lt;p&gt;Will be interested to hear if you&amp;#x27;ve tried it out and what may have been missing?&lt;p&gt;The only things we don&amp;#x27;t block at the moment is some non-English content and Adult sites. With a small team these haven&amp;#x27;t been the primary focus for the time being. Other than those though we should stop pretty much everything else.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.magiclasso.co&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.magiclasso.co&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web</title><url>https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/fbi-recommends-ad-blocker-online-scams-b1048998.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madars</author><text>Or, in other words, FBI now recommends using Android :-) It&amp;#x27;s baffling how much better uBlock Origin + Firefox experience on Android is compared to any iOS ad blocker I have tried. They kind-of work but let half of the ads through.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hailwren</author><text>Yeah, android trades browser ads for system wide tracking. I’m not really sure that’s a good deal.</text></comment>