Samsung and Xiaomi apps on their factory defaults are mostly fine, update them once and suddenly you have ads flashing after every 2 interactions with your phone

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devOP
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    8 hours ago

    Is it a “decent set it and forget it” kind of blocker? Because I might try that on my girlfriend’s phone, I tried TrackerControl with her once, but it kept “breaking” some apps and she didn’t have the patience to just switch the thing off/on.

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      6 hours ago

      I don’t understand how people would rather see ads and be tracked than flip a few switches.

      That being said, I do think TC would be vastly better if it had per app defaults that guarantee that everything works out of the box.

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      8 hours ago

      It is a decent set and forget universal ad blocker, however, you need to make sure you are downloading a v5 and not the v6 or it will not work. Also, you need to deactivate it and reactivate it whenever you restart your phone, this is a minor issue but it needs that kick every time your system reboots.

      Full disclaimer though, if you are playing games or running something that relies on ads to work (ie “watch the next ad to get 50 points!” ) blokada may break these types of apps so it may not be suitable for you.

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        6 hours ago

        I’ll give it a shot, most of the ads my gf gets are the unexpected ones from simply opening the app or starting a new brain game