The ad blockers on my devices don't prevent my in-laws, grandparents, etc. from seeing all of the misleading political ads that are out there (and I'm not about to take on sysadmin responsibilities for them, either).

My mother-in-law was shocked to learn that the Facebook ads she sees are different than the ones we see. She got us this mop for Christmas and couldn't understand how we had never heard of the brand before.

I've always used one on my desktop so was actually surprised to see those ads when I did the search on my phone. Those were the first political ads that I've seen because I don't watch TV and don't use social networks.

Firefox for android has addons including ublock origin. There ARE adblockers that work on the system level and block ads in apps but

- You can't selectively turn it off for a certain page

- You have to root the phone

- It's easier just to never install apps with in app ads.

> You have to root the phone

Allow me to introduce you to Blokada: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.blokada.alarm/

Allow me to introduce you to nextdns.io. Simple DNS level blocking on any device... (not affiliated, just a fan)

Yup. My point is, you don't need to have a rooted phone to get ad blocking.

I see political ads a hell lot when I use the YouTube iOS client. No need to watch TV or use social networks.

YouTube premium has no ads, which comes with a paid YouTube music plan.

Is it against the rules here to recommend anybody with an android phone to get ahold of Youtube Vanced? Someone took the youtube APK, and gutted out all the ads and unlocked youtube premium features for free if you're willing to sideload it.

I will second this. Vanced is a great tweaked YouTube app that I am grateful people put the time to make. Getting it to act like the normal YouTube app required tinkering. I noticed that web links used the default app even after setting Vanced as the default. To fix this, I had to remove the original YouTube app and stop it from auto-updating.

Well, I don’t watch enough YouTube these days to justify a subscription, and I already have a separate music streaming subscription.

Use lockdown on your iPhone... and uBlock on Firefox on Android.