On 2025-03-08, D MacDougall <dmacd...@usc.edu> wrote: >> >> >I use a "DNS privé" that's effective in blocking ads on my Android phone. >> > Since the subject of browsers on phones has come up I thought I'd put in > my 2 bits. I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for > years and have found that it's gradually been improving to the point that > I seldom have cause to use any other. Along the way I discovered that > they also make a browser. They make it for all the MS and Apple computers > and for both Apple and Android phones. Since Android is the only one of > those that I use, I can't vouch for it on any other platform, but on > android it very rapidly became my favorite browser. It's faster, in my > experience, than Firefox, which I mostly used before, and it blocks > everything that I'd want to block both coming down and also going back to > the website. It also has a builtin video player which plays Youtube > videos without ads and it blocks your viewing history from getting back to > google to be used for personalized advertizing. I don't know how they get > away with it or how long it will last, but for now it's far and away the > best android browser, in my opinion. It's not free software, it's a > for-profit company, but the company makes it's reputation on protecting > privacy and I think they do a good job. And anyway, if you use android > you probably use a lot of other non-free software.
In the Play Store it says "achats via l'application," so I guess to get this or that functionality you have to pay something. How much and for what remains to be determined after download. I'd rather they'd just ask for 15 or 20 euros and be done with it. But I'm not in charge of the world. > Don MacDougall > >
