Block Ads in Apps on Android

I've used both and Blockada is better mainly because it has a couple of killer features. One example is that it will keep the app alive, so that the power saving features of your phone does not kick in and turn it off.

Re: Block Ads in Apps on Android

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Post by mlrtime » Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 3:24 PM UTC

gamesbrainiac wrote: post #5

hivacruz wrote: post #4

How does it compare with Blockada? https://blokada.org

I've used both and Blockada is better mainly because it has a couple of killer features. One example is that it will keep the app alive, so that the power saving features of your phone does not kick in and turn it off.

How does this affect battery life though?

Re: Block Ads in Apps on Android

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Post by orliesaurus » Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 3:26 PM UTC

Dns666 is great and doesn't require your phone to be roolted. It basically acts as a local VPN client/server combo on your phone to handle the blocking. Only downside is that sometimes you have to reboot the app when it shutdown automatically for unknown reason to me.

Pro-tip if you have difficulties in getting the latest updates for one or more of the inbuilt blacklist host files, try to edit manually their URL to be httpS. It worked for me!

Re: Block Ads in Apps on Android

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Post by marceloneil » Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 3:29 PM UTC

gattilorenz wrote: post #2

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.

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.

Re: Block Ads in Apps on Android

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Post by mlrtime » Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 3:30 PM UTC

For Samsung owners I've heard good things about SABS: https://www.androidsage.com/2018/03/29/download-install-sabs...

Re: Block Ads in Apps on Android

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Post by nomadtwin » Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 3:32 PM UTC

mlrtime wrote: post #6

gamesbrainiac wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used both and Blockada is better mainly because it has a couple of killer features. One example is that it will keep the app alive, so that the power saving features of your phone does not kick in and turn it off.

How does this affect battery life though?

I have between 1-2% battery usage.