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What is your must have open source application available on fdroid?

New pipe - the YouTube front end is absolutely critical for my lifestyle.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Gotta be AdAway this thing is a must especially for root users

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What does AdAway do differently for root users?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently switched to AdAway from AdGuard. More ads seem to get through in apps, but combined with unlock in Firefox websites are completely clean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Were you using the Adguard app or the DNS's?

I usually use AdAway with root and with my pihole at home (and outside home with VPN) and I barely see any ads, although I haven't tested with Android apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Looks cool! Can anyone weigh in on how similar this is to DDG's tracking blocker feature? Is it the same but open source?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its basically just a host file. It pulls in a huge file with all the ad domains and whenever your phone tries to connect to one it gets ignored. Therefore it also works for ads in apps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It also (usually) manages to hide the space where the ad would be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I will be giving that a try. Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does DDG allow you to import lists? Does it have a VPN-less mode? Can it work system wide?