BlockAds is really doing a good job!

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I’m still testing out BlockAds, and I decided to put it through a tough Stress Test: WowROMS. That one site which is bombarded with horrific & highly malicious advertisements.

When I was using AdGuard, the ads got through easily, and that indicated a massive failure when it comes to security on Android devices.

But, when I used BlockAds with all the filters enabled, it essentially arrested those malicious ads and messages from showing up completely! I never thought an Ad-Blocker would seriously go that far to protect your device from bad actors!

I wonder if there’s other adverts it could block, alongside finding ways to circumvent Ad-Blocker Blocking attempts, like how Brave Browser handles them by developing methods around those detections…

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I use my own nightly block list.
https://hosts.flossboxin.org.in
I have used this app 2 weeks back. It is good. Really good.

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True, you can you make your own rules in the app. So in theory it’s more than possible for us to create ways to circumvent Ad-Blocker Blockers.

The only problem is: Can we do it? Considering that multiple websites block Ad-Blockers, not to mention Captchas are a big problem too. Those can track us as well.

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I just found a new problem site: FurAffinity, which uses a special Video Ad slot. That needs to be completely blocked out somehow.