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What's The Best Adblocker For Android Phones? (self.privacy)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by AlexanderTheGreat to c/[email protected]

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I'm talking full phone and blocking. Not just browser.

Edit: So many options! Thanks guys I'll go through them all and see what one I think will work best for me. I appreciate it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use Blockada 5 and haven't noticed any heating issues, it might be worth a go! I did have to enable most of the lists to get good coverage (and then a couple custom selected on/off over time) but I mostly don't think about it after a little setup. The only thing I do have to worry about is swapping which VPN is on when I want a real VPN- but fortunately the VPN I like (Mullvad) has adblock built in too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I still use Blokada 5 on my daily driver - it generally works "well enough" for most things, so I never bothered to switch to 4 on it. But I did notice that if you try to play a game on it, it's like the ad blocker isn't even there, whereas version 4 worked a lot better straight away. I may just not have played around enough with the settings of 5 though:-).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I use 5 and I noticed it was hit or miss so I just said fuck it and enabled all of the available lists lol haven't seen an ad since