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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: 0.001s | source
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Marsymars ◴[20 Feb 19 18:59 UTC] No.19210849[source]▶
I'm all-in for blocking ads, but I've found full-OS ad-blockers to be entirely unnecessary - I simply don't use apps with ads.

The few apps with ads that I sometimes can't avoid aren't fixable by ad-blockers. (e.g. ads in Google Maps)

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1. turtlebits ◴[20 Feb 19 20:15 UTC] No.19211548[source]▶
I use Blokada and it blocks a lot of telemetry data. Saves my data usage as well.

I don't use any apps with ads, but Blokada has reported blocking ~100k requests a week on my phone.

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2. Marsymars ◴[20 Feb 19 20:23 UTC] No.19211615[source]▶
Does it have an effective breakdown of number and destination of requests per app?

I prefer to generally leave telemetry enabled, and simply not use apps from publishers whom I don't trust to use it responsibly.