(Apps) AD-AWAY - Solution to Block Ads on Android (Banned App On PlayStore)

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It isn’t hard to figure out why Google banned this app from the Play Store. Ad-Away would be a huge threat to mobile advertising as an industry if it were ever to become popular. Ad-Away is fairly effective, it simply blocks advertisements from your Android device. Keep in mind that some apps may not work with Ad-Away installed, but it is fairly easy to white list those apps so that you can continue to use them. Personally, I would encourage people not to use Ad-Away because in-app advertisements support developers and if they go away we will have to pay up front for a lot more of the apps that are currently free. But it’s an open operating system, the choice is up to you.

AdAway is an open source ad blocker for Android using the hosts file. It needs Android >= 2.1 and ROOT access.

Features

• AdAway is Open Source and Free Software (GPLv3+)
• AdAway lets you select your own sources of hosts files
• You can add exceptions to your Whitelist if an app is not working when specific hosts are blocked
• You can define extra hostnames in your own Blacklist
• You can add your own (hostname, IP)-pairs in the Redirection List

Requirements

• Android version: 2.1
• ROOT required
• Read/Write access on system-Partition

Problems can occur on some HTC devices when system-Partition is not writable!

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