Adaway on fdroid works pretty well. It’s better if you have root access, but it functions fine as an adblocker without. I think it pretends to be a VPN service if you don’t have root
Haha, fair enough. I put it on my 80 yo mom’s motorola phone. She never asked where I got it. I believe that ad blocking is against the play store TOS, so you are unlikely to find a “mainstream” solution
I use nextDNS. You have to make an account, but the free tier has a ridiculous amount of ad blocks per month. Definitely enough for one or two machines.
Any suggestions?
check out this list: https://publicdns.info/best-adblocking.html
using the adguard dns is probably easiest, fire and forget. nextdns gives you more settings and controls.
on android you can e.g. drop “dns.adguard-dns.com” in the “private dns” setting and you’re good, system-wide
Adaway on fdroid works pretty well. It’s better if you have root access, but it functions fine as an adblocker without. I think it pretends to be a VPN service if you don’t have root
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/
Ehhh… this is my dad’s Samsung tablet. F-droid is a nonstarter for a boomer.
Even Samsung tablets allow the change of the private DNS-Resolver. Android uses DoT. Start for example with adguard, or quad9:
unfiltered.adguard-dns.com dns.quad9.net
Haha, fair enough. I put it on my 80 yo mom’s motorola phone. She never asked where I got it. I believe that ad blocking is against the play store TOS, so you are unlikely to find a “mainstream” solution
I use nextDNS. You have to make an account, but the free tier has a ridiculous amount of ad blocks per month. Definitely enough for one or two machines.