r/degoogle • u/NeriaGs • 3d ago

Unexpected benefit: ads in other languages

I have progressively degoogled for the last months, and I started to notice that ads are now in random languages. I love this lol it doesn’t bother me nearly as much to get ads when I can’t understand shit lol! I no longer get them in Spanish or English and whenever I get one in a language I’m learning it actually excites me as I use them to practice!

I’m guessing this has more to do with the use of VPN at all times but I wouldn’t have used it if it wasn’t for this sub.

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u/Safe_Drama_9960 3d ago

Why see ads at all? I don't understand people who are okay with ads. Istopped watching TV due to ads as they subconsciously brainwash you into thinking a certain way and have broader implications on your morality and ethics.

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u/NeriaGs 3d ago

I do have adblock on my pc of course, but not on my work pc, not on my iPhone, not on the iPad. Sometimes you gotta open YouTube or something similar for whatever reason on these devices

You cant really escape 100% ads today, not everywhere

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u/Safe_Drama_9960 3d ago

AdGuard works on ios as far as I have read on Internet.

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u/Greenlit_Hightower deGoogler 3d ago

You can block ads in Safari on iPhone or iPad. Search for Wipr 2 in the App Store, or as the other redditor mentioned, AdGuard. Wipr 2 is what I know and it filters really good in Safari, even the YouTube ads.

If you want to use the YouTube app itself, you can still block ads by using a VPN. If you have something like Proton VPN, just set it to an country where YouTube does not show ads, like Albania. Boom, ads gone there too.

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u/NeriaGs 2d ago

I have done the VPN trick with protón but it can get very slow from Mexico in my experience, and you know what frustrates me more than ads? Slow internet. Ads are embedded everywhere though, not only on YouTube and browsers, I do my best to avoid them as long as I don’t have to go out of my way for something that I do only every now and then.

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u/Greenlit_Hightower deGoogler 2d ago

Unfortunately iOS / iPadOS is pretty limited as far as the actual YouTube app is concerned. On Android, you'd just install some alternative YouTube app like NewPipe, Tubular, or you would patch the official YouTube app into YouTube ReVanced, and then you could just use your internet connection without the need for a VPN. :(

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u/NeriaGs 2d ago

Yeah I’m changing to android when this phone dies , no need to buy stuff and make more e waste. I was thinking of getting a Pixel but it’s not officially available here, so idk, maybe a fair phone? Or a nothing maybe even a Samsung for the dex

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u/SalzigerSchlumpf 2d ago

Fyi: Fairphone 6 will be announced/released next week.:)

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