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?
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?
Adguard home blocks most ads on my network. But I’m also using Firefox with ublock on Android.
I use YouTube revanced to block YouTube ads on my phone. SmartTubeNext to block YouTube ads on my tv. So between these, it’s exceptionally rare I see an ad.
It all depends on how you use the internet, and what ads you’re seeing that you want to block.
The ads on YouTube (no account, and used their app) were one of the irritations that made me curious here. I know very little about YouTube relanced… where’d you acquire it through?
revanced.app is the correct place to get it iirc.
This will let you download the “revanced manager” app’s .apk . Once installed, the revanced manager app lets you take the .apk of a specific version of the YouTube app and patch it to make the revanced .apk . This enables ad blocking and other features like sponsorblock.
It has to be done this way because hosting prepatched apks is a good way to get sued by Google for violating the DMCA.
same here and something about this environment lets me get unreasonably triggered when i do see an ad. lol
Wait, so I should download something in addition to ublock with firefox? I don’t think I see youtube commercials, I only watch a few shows on there and don’t see any ads already lately at least. So it’s the app or whatever on the tv or delivering the youtube to the tv that is advertising?
DNS ad blockers won’t block YouTube ads so for that specific case, you’re limited to apps like Revanced or a browser ad blocker like UBlock Origin (and watching YouTube from your browser). For most all other ads (in your browser or in other apps) a DNS blocker like AdGuard works.