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Joe Brainer
By Joe Brainer
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When it comes to phones, I don't entirely know what I'm doing. I have a little experience with Rooting, Jailbreak, and Homebrew. But it has been 6 years since my last run in and things change. I would rather speak with someone sure of themselves than spend hours trying to learn something that may not even be possible. 
 

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I've used something called block this which works pretty well, and it doesn't require root. It routes traffic through a VPN on your device to the app so that I can filter the traffic. The downside though is that you then can't use a vpn at the same time. Also, it doesn't work on YouTube ads but it blocks website ads quite well.

 

If you're willing to give Firefox a try, they allow using extensions, so you could add ublock origin to it.

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I use block this

https://block-this.com

 

Doesn't need root access either. Uses android's VPN mode.

 

Just install the APK (Google removed it from the app store lol) and enable it, easy as that.

 

Edit: DocSwag you heck, beat me to it

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1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I use block this

https://block-this.com

 

Doesn't need root access either. Uses android's VPN mode.

 

Just install the APK (Google removed it from the app store lol) and enable it, easy as that.

 

Edit: DocSwag you heck, beat me to it

I mean... The fact that we both recommended it though must mean it's good, right? :D 

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Sweet, thank you both. I was hoping for some control over YouTubes now very annoying and repetitive ads that don't even pertain to me or my viewing habits. But I'll take what I can get anyway, plenty of other ads to stop. 
Now comes the problem of who gets the "Mark as Solved" point. 
 

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44 minutes ago, Techkalakosis said:

Sweet, thank you both. I was hoping for some control over YouTubes now very annoying and repetitive ads that don't even pertain to me or my viewing habits. But I'll take what I can get anyway, plenty of other ads to stop. 
Now comes the problem of who gets the "Mark as Solved" point. 
 

One thing I've found with youtube and block this is that watch history doesn't work. Try newpipe for youtube

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