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Re:The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers by johnvanommen on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:25PM (#17040980)
I thought you had to root your Android to block ads?

In my household we have four people with smartphones and another four laptops. That's a lot of ads to block.

Blocking ads on my laptop made a more noticeable improvement to web browsing than increasing my network bandwidth.

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Re:The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers by sli on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:29PM (#17041036)
DNS66[0] can block ads without root.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/

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Re:The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers by Lionsion on Thursday May 10, 2018 @01:55PM (#17041316)
> I thought you had to root your Android to block ads?

Maybe with Chrome, but there's an Android version of Firefox that lets you install uBlock Origin:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...

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