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Block Ads in Apps on Android

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182 points whalabi | 2 comments | 20 Feb 19 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tobib ◴[20 Feb 19 15:41 UTC] No.19208689[source]▶
> This is a free, open source app. Open source is important here because all your network requests will go through this app, and we need to make sure we can trust it. Because the app is open source, if it was doing anything shady, it would be found out.

That's the statement that always bothers me because it's only true if you build the app yourself. This is giving people a simplistic view and a false sense of security.

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Forbo ◴[20 Feb 19 15:45 UTC] No.19208744[source]▶
If it's available on F-Droid, it can support reproducible builds, so that's at least one defense against it. https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
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1. pieter_mj ◴[20 Feb 19 16:01 UTC] No.19208916[source]▶
Yes it's available on F-Droid (see comment# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19208623), but currently I have a slight preference for Blokada.
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2. e40 ◴[20 Feb 19 21:14 UTC] No.19212051[source]▶
I use Blokada, and I have less problems using it than I did Dns66. Lots of things stopped working with the latter, but I have yet to find anything that doesn't work with Blokada.

However, Blokada has lately been crashing or stopping or being killed. I'm on Android 9. I have to start it manually when the notification disappears.