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When I’m outside my home network, I rely on Tracker Control (installed via F-Droid) for most traffic. And the usual uBlock Origin and such for my mobile Firefox browser.
Adguard dns and ublock origin in Firefox.
I still use AdAway with root
This, plus uBlock Origin, plus the pihole on my home LAN to which I am normally tethered via Wireguard when not on my hone wifi.
Many layers, make ogre stronk
I got a new phone; first one I didn’t root, but god do I miss AdAway…
When I first bought the pixel 8 pro I tried to see if I could go without rooting. I came to my senses within a week
I’ve been using DNS 66 for a while with no complaints.
Can you use a VPN at the same time as DNS66?
If you don’t want to use DNS for whatever reason. Then Firefox/Mull with Ublock origin for the browser only
Why not both?
I may be a crazy old bastard but I have never used an ad blocker. I just use plain simple blacklists. Too many ads or obtrusive ads go on the list and I just don’t see those sites anymore. Otherwise I’m fine with ads.
Yeah but… a block list is just another blocker. The real question is how you’re implementing it?
Android’s host file protection makes it impossible to modify without root.
Man, you tech guys. My block list is in my head.
Yeah you should stay off the crack for a while bud
I assume you’re adding the blacklist into your host file? How big is your block file? I remember one think that finally pushed me to use pihole and adguard a few years ago was due to my large host file causing >1s dns lookup time. Moving to pihole improved performance significantly in my case. Not sure if OS these days can handle large host file without huge performance impact though.
Blokada 5 here. It works well enough even with the glitching.
I stopped using blokada after it started massively draining my battery in the background.
That doesn’t sound good at all
Adguard’s default blocklist doesn’t block many in-app ads sdk. Make sure to add some 3rd party block list like Steven Black’s.
Rethink DNS is an amazing app if you’re on android. Highly worth giving a shot! Even for the peeps on other solutions.
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I use a VPN that has an ad blocker built in, like Mozilla, that blocks all the normal apps even without root.
Then I use Firefox with uBlock Origin for web browsing.
Mozzila has a vpn ?
ublock is the only real answer for browser . Idk where else ads appear on android only heard of em never seen em.
Blokada 5 has been very nice to me, no root, and doesn’t use much battery (android tells me 4% after a full day). Only downside is that it counts as a VPN connection, so if you want to connect to another VPN you have to turn it off temporarily.
Otherwise definitely Firefox with ublock origin
Not using Google Play services
