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Re:Introducing Netflix Stethoscope by janwillemb on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:34PM (#13701308)
My main reason, or probably only reason to root my devices is to populate the hosts file with anti-advertising entries. Which may be safer than a device that is exposed to all the advertising crap.
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Re:Introducing Netflix Stethoscope by ac29 on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @07:18PM (#13701615)
You can do this with an on-device VPN, which doesn't require root: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/ADBLOCKING.md

The app is also on the Play Store, but the adblocking features are only in the Github version (presumably Google will not approve this functionality for Play Store apps).

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Re:Introducing Netflix Stethoscope by kiallmacinnes on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:44PM (#13701377)
And this is one of the few reasons I envy iOS users, Apple shipped ad-blocking APIs of some kind (or did that actually come out yet/ever?)

Google will likely never do this :(

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