Re:Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
by ohazi on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:23PM
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Ad blocker on a mobile device?
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Re:Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
by mike-cardwell on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:40PM
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I use AdAway - https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/ on my Android phone. Downloads lists of advertising hostnames and blocks them via /etc/hosts. It's licensed under GPL-3.0. Requires you to have rooted your phone.
Re:Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
by el_duderino on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:12PM
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Another option for Android users (that doesn't require root) is Blokada -https://f-droid.org/packages/org.blokada.alarm/
Re:Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
by mike-cardwell on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:51PM
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Just looked into how it works without root access. It apparently creates a local VPN interface and routes traffic through it. Which is a fine way of doing it, except it prevents you from using other VPNs on the same device at the same time - https://blokada.org/api/v3/content/en/help.html#howitworks - FWIW, this is also how Tor on Android (using Orbot) works for non-rooted devices (if you want to routes apps that don't have socks proxy support).
Just to clarify re "VPN", it's not actually a VPN to any third party service, it's just a local "fake" VPN interface to intercept traffic.
Re:Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
by stagbeetle on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:09PM
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Hosts list. Doesn't work as well on mobile. Unsure how Waze does their ads, but on mobile you get a white box with "Couldn't load!" or something of that sort instead of no ad at all.