Block Ads in Apps on Android

Re:Block Ads in Apps on Android by gattilorenz on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:09AM (#19208381)

Another alternative, on a rooted phone, is AdAway, which can be obtained on F-Droid ( https://f-droid.org/en/ ). I'm more than satisfied with it.

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Re:Block Ads in Apps on Android by marceloneil on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:29AM (#19208551)

AdAway is quite nice as it updates your hosts file directly rather than using the phones VPN feature, although the downside is you do need root.

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Re:Block Ads in Apps on Android by trishmapow2 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:36AM (#19208642)

Which filter lists do you use? I find a few ads still get through on the default settings.

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Re:Block Ads in Apps on Android by gattilorenz on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:06PM (#19210238)

https://pastebin.com/raw/L0011N6C

Although to be honest I also use the Brave browser,so that might explain why I have so few ads when browsing. Yeah, I really hate them...

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Re:Block Ads in Apps on Android by PkBuzios on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:12PM (#19211524)

AdAway is, until today, the best option. All the other root-free alternatives requires the app to run on the background which may consume resources, battery or even crash and stop functioning.

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