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Adblocking for android phone (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What would be your recommendation for blocking ads on an android phone? Do you use one and, if so, what's your 2 cents on what you're using? Where have you seen the biggest improvement (reduction) if it works well?

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[–] Stiffneckedppl@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For me, the best bang for your buck as far as effort was to just set the DNS Provider to dns.adguard.com. Then use whatever adblocker or vpn solution you want on top of that. Has worked pretty well for me.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago

I can't recommend this highly enough, there is one caveat though- it may break some links or hotel wifi login portals. Not a big deal, just switch it off for a second and reload the page, login, and then turn it back on. It's a quick 30s process to cycle it off so it's a non issue for me.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

This a million times ^

Combine that with FF and UBO and I almost never see an ad.

[–] Jagget@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Also, AdGuard app on android