I use nextDNS. You have to make an account, but the free tier has a ridiculous amount of ad blocks per month. Definitely enough for one or two machines.
Adaway on fdroid works pretty well. It’s better if you have root access, but it functions fine as an adblocker without. I think it pretends to be a VPN service if you don’t have root
Haha, fair enough. I put it on my 80 yo mom’s motorola phone. She never asked where I got it. I believe that ad blocking is against the play store TOS, so you are unlikely to find a “mainstream” solution
Any suggestions?
check out this list: https://publicdns.info/best-adblocking.html
using the adguard dns is probably easiest, fire and forget. nextdns gives you more settings and controls.
on android you can e.g. drop “dns.adguard-dns.com” in the “private dns” setting and you’re good, system-wide
I use nextDNS. You have to make an account, but the free tier has a ridiculous amount of ad blocks per month. Definitely enough for one or two machines.
Adaway on fdroid works pretty well. It’s better if you have root access, but it functions fine as an adblocker without. I think it pretends to be a VPN service if you don’t have root
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/
Ehhh… this is my dad’s Samsung tablet. F-droid is a nonstarter for a boomer.
Haha, fair enough. I put it on my 80 yo mom’s motorola phone. She never asked where I got it. I believe that ad blocking is against the play store TOS, so you are unlikely to find a “mainstream” solution
Even Samsung tablets allow the change of the private DNS-Resolver. Android uses DoT. Start for example with adguard, or quad9:
unfiltered.adguard-dns.com dns.quad9.net