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Every major browser supports addons or extensions. Using this functionality to install an adblocker is one of the easiest and least complex ways to take matters into your own hands.
===[https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock uBlock Origin]===
[[File:Screenshot of the uBlock Origin UI on Firefox.png|thumb|uBlock Origin's dashboard]]
This free and open source add-on uses community compiled blocklists to monitor the outgoing browser requests, cancelling those which are going to a known ad servers.
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====Private DNS====
[[File:Secure-dns-android.png|thumb|Android's Private DNS entry window. Yours may look slightly different depending on the Android interface you're using.]]
If you have an Android 9 or later device, you can change your DNS provider to a provider which will refuse to resolve ads, thus giving you DNS based tracking and content blocking. Android supports [[w:DNS over TLS|DNS over TLS]] (DoT) and you can therefore use any DoT supporting provider. We're partial to [https://blahdns.com/ BlahDNS], a non-profit open source provider, but an [https://
Once you've picked your DNS provider, head over to your settings and under network settings (usually) you can enter the DNS provider details.
====Browsers====
On Android, there are a number of browser-based adblocking options.
=====[https://www.
If you're more partial to Chromium-based browsers, a good choice is [https://www.bromite.org/
▲If you're more partial to Chromium-based browsers, a good choice is [https://www.bromite.org/ Briomite]. Built on the same technological foundations as Google's {{p|Chrome}}, but includes adblocking and is far more privacy respecting.
====YouTube====
=====[https://
YouTube
===iOS===
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===[https://pi-hole.net/ PiHole]===
[[File:Pi-hole Screenshot 2.png|thumb|PiHole's interface, after install.]]
PiHole is a FOSS software package which can take over DNS resolution and add many bells and whistles to allow you to manage and log how DNS resolution is performed on your network.
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