Lockdown Privacy VS Altstore

Everyone's talking about Lockdown but nobody provided a link, and it's a non-trivial thing to Google so here's their website for more info. Source: about 1 year ago

A little introduction: I am using Lockdown Privacy. It's an app with a local VPN which blocks ads and trackers systemwide on my iPhone en iPad. But strangely enough, it seems that it is using double data. Anyway, it's also not fool proof, so I am using AdGuard Safari extension too. Also on my Mac with custom elements that can be blocked. At home I also use AdGuard Home for my Mac (and some other devices). It's... Source: about 1 year ago

Do yourself a favour and use https://lockdownprivacy.com/ it’s FOSS and will get rid of those horrid ads.. Source: about 1 year ago

PSA: Lockdown does the same thing (they call it “Firewall”), is also open source and is available for iOS and macOS! Source: over 1 year ago

I would also suggest Lockdown for a more Blokada-like solution that can knock out a lot of ads and tracking in apps. Despite all of Apple's talk about privacy, with many third party apps you're on your own if you decide to actually use them. One of the more popular dating apps used to make my iPhone scary hot in the process of displaying tons of ads until I started using Lockdown. Yes, it was all... Source: over 1 year ago

AltStore (https://altstore.io/) is available, but only has two apps last time I checked. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

AltServer from the AltStore folks allows you to automate the renewal of sideloaded apps. It’s not perfect, but it’s an excellent workaround. http://altstore.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

That's probably to prevent the most obvious workaround of creating a new shell company for every million users. (Which would be not so ridiculous as it sounds, there is plenty of software you cannot buy directly but only through a reseller. Epic could become a pure b2b shop on paper and sell Fortnite clients to regional distributors, or something like that.) Some time ago somebody made an alternative App Store for... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

See: https://altstore.io/ 2 apps, re-sign weekly maximum. 3 if you do it without AltStore. Unlimited with a $99/yr developer account. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I mean, that's fine. My argument about adblockers applies to other software too: the Apple ecosystem has some of the basics (like sync, browsers, etc) figured out for me so that I don't need to fiddle with it. While I'd like to use Firefox, I don't need to, and the tradeoffs that come with accepting Safari instead are worth it for my specific situation. Forcing myself into a different... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago