C++ Wage Slave
@CppGuy@infosec.space
I'm an oldish software developer, a cis het man, married to Mrs Wife since for ever. I'm autistic but high-masking. @nddev is where I mostly write about that. I nearly always accept follow requests. If I follow you, you don't have to follow back unless you want to. I've chosen a server that blocks Threads because I don't trust Meta's intentions. No alt text, no boost. Avatar is a photo of a Jersey bay, with a boat setting out to sea. I'm horrified by the rise of the hard Right around the world.
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@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.