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Blocking website ads with a hosts file | Jan 2019

Has it been working fine for you? It quite often stops working for me and I have to restart the service.

DNS66[1] has been working great for me but for some reason it misses a few ads unlike Blokada which never missed a single ad for me.

[1] https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

AdGuard Pro for iOS will be discontinued due to Apple's policy | Aug 2018

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You should try DNS66 [0], which does not require root. It acts as a VPN on Android and returns 0.0.0.0 when any app tries to resolve the IP address of an ad-serving domain. Other network traffic passes through unmodified, so it's very battery friendly.

The app is also available from Fdroid [1]. It isn't available from the Play Store, since Google has banned ad blockers.

[0] https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/

Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store | May 2018

For those on Android, here's a great one that's open source. Get it on F-Droid, XDA, or build from source: https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties | May 2018

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use an open source one:

https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy | Apr 2018

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DNS66 and NetGuard are similar open source applications.

https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

Introducing the LineageOS SDK | Mar 2018

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DNS66 https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/ https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

Successfully being used on a 1st-gen Moto Z Play, no root, stock firmware. Works great.

Ad network uses advanced malware technique to conceal CPU-draining mining ads | Feb 2018

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DNS66 works the same way and is slightly more popular: https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 | Dec 2017

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Have you tried using DNS66 as adblocker? It's implemented as local-running VPN and doesn't require root. I'm using it since a year or so and quite happy with it.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/ https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

Privacy | Oct 2017

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Such applications are not necessarily a problem - take a look at this Android one, for example:

https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

In any case it should be up to the owner of the device if they wish to do this sort of thing rather than Apple.

Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month | Mar 2017

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A non-root way: DNS66 via F-Droid.

https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements | Mar 2017

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Sounds like this is still true.

Optionally block ads using a hosts file (not available if installed from the Play store)

I re-linked NetGuard as the most user-friendly, but https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 was also mentioned.

Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month | Mar 2017

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DNS66 (https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66) doesn't require root. It uses the Android VPN system to capture DNS requests and forwards everything else.

Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month | Mar 2017

This is really neat and I had thought about doing this when I acquired a new Android device that I don't have root on. Alternatively, a program was made to host a DNS process on the phone in userland that downloads blacklists as well as uses external well known nameservers. Then use build in VPN client to redirect all DNS queries through to the daemon. DNS66 has been doing a fine job since I started using it last week. https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66