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Google to penalize “back button hijacking” starting June 2026 (developers.google.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

Good practice, but consider putting something like Dnsnet on the phone to fully block all ads:

https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet

It starts a small "VPN" client that will filter incoming/outgoing traffic for any add content and kill it before it gets sent. Its free and works great on any android device, rooted or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I have a pi-hole at home to block them when they're on Wi-Fi. I'll look into that for when they're out and about

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Toss nextdns.io into the mix if you have technical chops. Its a great way to filter ads at the DNS level that is also free. I use that in my pi hole setup as the DNS to just layer and layer on more filtering.

    Sponsorblock is also great for things that YouTube videos to filter out ad reads/self promo/etc in YouTube videos.

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