#blokada

@carnage4life@mas.to Quite apart from the ethical problems of using #AI and the personal risk of letting it loose in your private affairs like this, don't you get a sense of unease about who's doing this? #Meta already wants to insert itself unnecessarily into all human communication and shoulder-surf without consent on all activity on the Web. Isn't that more than enough already? Should people be letting Meta take an active role in their finances and daily lives as well? My own disclaimer is that I've configured #Blokada on my phone to block all Meta properties at DNS level, and I moved to a Fedi instance that blocks Threads. That shows you how little I trust Meta. We're not going to reach agreement here, but I hope we can still have a civilised and fruitful conversation.

@len@nyan.network Mixed news: I use #Blokada, which does DNS filtering for the entire device (not just the browser) using the #Android VPN mechanism. Normally, if I use YouTube at all, I do it either in Firefox with uBlock Origin or in NewPipe. Disappointingly, if I experimentally open the YouTube app, I still see an advert. Google must be working around DNS-level ad-blockers by, for example, downloading content and adverts from the same domain. On the bright side, if I tap on an advert, the YouTube app tries to use #Firefox to open it, and #uBlockOrigin blocks that access. So it's not a complete solution, but changing the default browser to Firefox and installing uBlock Origin may be enough to keep your relative safe. Good luck! I've been in a similar situation to yours and I know how hard it is to protect elderly relatives from an adversarial technology ecosystem.