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Introduction
Oh, advertising, how is it we become boring. On the street, in newspapers, on television and, of course, the Internet. If your computer or any other device with a large display it is still relevant, albeit confusing, here’s a banner ad on a half-screen smartphone or tablet to endure difficult. And then there’s banners in games – a nightmare, and only. How to deal with them on a mobile device? This is to tell you our review of the ad blocker for the gadgets on the Android OS.
So, take a look at the “problem” of advertising within. Development and content of the site, development and support of an application – all this work that must be paid. Not all developers can do paid versions of programs, and not all users are willing to buy them. A similar situation is with the sites, not all users agree to visit a favorite site on a paid subscription. Only one thing – to advertise (whether it displays advertising or clicks on it – it does not matter here). And any act accordingly and have a reaction. In our case – blockers advertising.
We have selected three of the most popular, the workers and the actual application. AdAway – it blocker adverti sing by prohibiting access to advertising addresses. Similarly works AdFree, and Adblock Plus. They are distinguished by the authors, interface and features, but the principle of operation they have one and the same.
It is worth noting that we do not in any way encourage the use of such programs, because without money received for advertising, not the normal life of most (if not all) sites. However, in some cases, these applications can help out, and talk about them at least from a technical point of view, can not hurt.
Block ads simply: AdAway
Introduction
AdAway a universal blocker advertising, allowing a few clicks to block access to devices on the ad server.
The application is simplified to a minimum, but is designed both for beginners and for experts. Download “corrections” and the modification itself hosts file is very simple. Program and have interesting features, they are hidden in the ground and will be useful if necessary.
The main advantages of the application AdAway:
- Easy to use.
- Automatic check for updates.
- Search for non-blocking advertising.
- A detailed description of the essence of the application, help, and so on.
- Russian localization.
Disadvantages:
- You must have rights Root and S-ON (for devices of HTC).
Getting Started
When you first start the application AdAway ask superuser. This is necessary to access and modify the system partition, namely – Changes file hosts. If your gadget is not Root-rights, the application will not work.
The program interface is as simple as possible, all the items are signed and are explained in detail as possible. AdAway completely Russified.
Click on the “Upload files and use ad-blocking.” So we loaded advertising addresses – hosts, and then there is their integration into the system.
The application then prompts you to restart the device. Need to agree to this team, because «Java in Android has its own internal cache DNS. The operating system will use the updated hosts file immediately, but we have to reset the device to re-create the DNS cache in Java ».
This is how it is explained in the help information. Lucidly and clearly, and I do not need to explain anything.
After rebooting, the application starts to operate at full capacity. Advertising is blocked, in a browser, and applications. Just how well this works, we will explain below.
If we need to restore the display of advertising, click on the “Disable ad-blocking”, and then restores the original structure of the file hosts. By the way, i f you remove the utility should use this function.
Preferences
The adjustments or settings AdAway almost dazzles. Of the functions that are worth listing, it may be noted automatically check for updates of advertising addresses. Updating can be performed only when connected to a Wi-Fi network, so as not to waste precious megabytes of mobile data traffic.
We can then correct the sources of lists of hosts, which is convenient. In addition to standard sources can add their own, so that probably block all ads. And you can unlock a particular resource, there is no longer any chance come unsolicited advertising.
By the way, we can point to “own” the path to the hosts, which is very convenient, while the original remains intact.
Once we available query log DNS. This will allow to block advertising in those applications where the “standard tools” that did not work. That is, with this tool you can analyze the application requests for advertising and, if necessary, block them.
For full ad blocking can be enabled web server, then advertising requests will be sent not to the ad server, and our – clean, located on our device.
With the help of “Scanner Adware» You can find an application using the system Airpush-notifications that can be displayed advertising. Alas, this can only be corrected by removing the applications themselves.
At this point we are done consideration of all application functions called AdAway.
Test
For a visual example of the program, we took a few sites where there is a different kind of advertising. So, it is locked, but not everywhere, despite the fact that the list of hosts advertising has been updated to the most recent (at the time of writing).
I will note one thing about not only the application, but also the rest. In Google Chrome Google ads will be displayed in the traffic compression. And because in this mode all advertising comes in a compressed form (possibly via an encrypted channel, there is no precise data) and unpacked on the device, it can not block it no specialized application.
Findings AdAway
AdAway – quite typical ad blocker. It is simple to use, can automatically update the database of advertising addresses to filter DNS queries, scan the application for the presence of Airpush-tray and has a few more features.
And let the base hosts advertising updated often enough, but a certain percentage of advertising is still present. This means that upgrades insufficiently operational.
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| Developer | Dominik Schurmann, Davis Mosenkovs. |
| Cost | Free. |
| Requirements | For OC Android 2.1, Root rights. |
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