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There is adblocking on Android.

• alecco 11y ago
  Ad blocking is very expensive. The iOS approach is the best idea. Have you seen the cost in memory and CPU of browser ad blocker extensions? That's prohibitive in mobile.
  • Nexxxeh 11y ago
    Have you tried Firefox and uBlock (maybe uBlock0, I forget) on a reasonable Android phone? It is amazing, and vastly superior to any other mobile browsing I've tried. Including Safari on an iPad.
  • mizzack 11y ago
    Adaway just modifies your /etc/hosts file to redirect ad domains to localhost. That definitely doesn't seem expensive...
    • coldpie 11y ago
      Parsing a huge /etc/hosts for every single hostname lookup certainly is expensive.
      • mizzack 11y ago
        I'm not sure what the practical limits are on host file size, but I just checked my phone with up to date AdAway lists and it's sitting at 56429 lines (with about 10 or so of those being comments)
      • recursive 11y ago
        It seems unlikely that it's actually implemented that way.