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Block Ads in Apps on Android

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182 points whalabi | 1 comments | 20 Feb 19 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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phkahler ◴[20 Feb 19 15:45 UTC] No.19208747[source]▶
I wish the play store would just let me filter based on app intrusiveness. Let me find things that don't use ads, don't have in-app purchases, and don't collect data. Looking at "paid" apps is NOT equivalent. Then I can maybe read reviews and get what I want. Once the quality bar has been raised I don't have any problem paying a few bucks (or more) for an app that behaves the way I want.
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1. rubenbe ◴[20 Feb 19 15:56 UTC] No.19208862[source]▶
On the "don't collect data", I can recommend "exodus privacy" which shows permissions and trackers that are present in your installed apps.

You can search them online [0] or show the analysis of the apps you already have installed [1]

[0] https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/search/

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eu.exodus_...

Fosdem talk that explains all of this in more detail: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/analysis_of_the_behav...