I've been using AdGuard on my phone (OnePlus 6T) and tablet (Tab S7 FE) for quite some time now. Neither device is rooted. I got AdGuard lifetime license on sale from StackSocial a while back. The app isn't on the Play Store (if you look for it, you will instead find an extension for the Samsung browser or something). They have you download the .apk from their site, and then you can set up the blocking how you prefer. It works by setting up a local VPN. I think there's other ways to use it but I didn't feel the need to tweak further. Because it acts like a VPN, all app traffic flows through it so ads are blocked pretty much system-wide. Browsers, social media apps etc. Honestly I'd highly recommend it.

"Known to collect" is going to be vastly different from what's actually being collected. It's more realistically just serving ads, getting some crash/error reporting. But because it's all under Google, it's going to show up as Google. DDG/other blockers won't know the difference.

surprised it hasn't happened already

LFG!!

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It's a PWA (progressive web app). If you open the site on Chrome, then go to the Settings -> Install page, it should show some instructions on how to add the page to your home screen. Upon doing so, the next time you open it from the newly added icon, it should open in its own window looking like an app as opposed to a tab on Chrome

This is incredibly useful! Looking forward to the release!

What kind of drive is it? There's a chance the alert could be legitimate.

fortunately the name changed to Voyager. Reachable at the following URLs vger.app m.lemmy.world

community: voyager@lemmy.world

incredibly useful app for macOS

I believe this is from enabling colorful mode inside Theme Management in Settings

Edit: on second thought, that wasn't it

Very exciting!! Thank you for this great app, and also for taking feedback 👍

No problem at all. Hopefully you're all set. But just in case, here's a short video with similar steps https://youtube.com/...

was that Brave browser or search engine? never fully understood from the article

Several times a month, haha. We live really close to a Costco (7-10 mins drive!) so we just pop over for only a couple things. The addiction is real.

Oh, happy days!

thanks for this! it worked. and come to think of it, i remember having to do something similar to refresh the ip on a raspberry pi a while back

Have you had your drive(s) for a while? Could be WDDA throwing up the warning. See this video if you haven't already https://youtu.be/jx4i64uqsIA?si=BbV1GGCL6GRJ3VM8

or this article too https://nascompares.com/...

Honestly not that much. It seems pretty lightweight. It has it's own measurement of battery usage (can't say how accurate it is but still better than nothing perhaps?) and on the tablet it has consumed around 9mAh, which I guess isn't too crazy.