These options can be changed later in the settings. If you are not sure of your needs, leave it “as is”. Thorough setup is a questionnaire where you choose whether you want to block ads in web search results, hide social widgets, site notifications, and more. There are two options: quick and detailed filter settings. Click “Go to Products” and here we are on Adguard's site, where you can download the full version of their ad blocker for Android. Next, the app shows the explanation to us why any full-fledged ad blockers are not available in the Play Store. Select Yandex Browser or Samsung Internet Browser if you use one of them. And as you can see, on the start screen, it can work only with two browsers. Find it in the Play Market, install and run. There is a third option to block ads on Android – use an adblocker application, most of which use the local VPN server - another way to filter ads from your traffic.

If you have it disabled or in an automatic mode, select the 'Custom' or 'Private' option. Here you see the Private DNS option, tap it.In my case this item is called “Network & internet”. Open device settings and go to connection settings.To configure DNS for ad blocking on Android, do the following:

In Android 10 and higher, you can change the base DNS server for all outgoing traffic on the device. Naturally, we need the second option, which is available only with this switcher position.ĭNS is one of the services that is required for the modern Internet. Their current state is easy to check, as you can see if you tap it, the feature description switching to Allowed or Block ads. Note that on newer versions of Chrome, both options must be disabled in order to use them.

Here you will find two options: Ads and Pop-ups and redirects responsible for blocking annoying ads and unwanted pop-ups, respectively.

Then find the Settings section, scroll a bit and go to the Site settings submenu.

In Google Chrome, open the menu by tapping on the three dots here in the corner of the screen.

One of key features of Chrome for Android is the built-in ad blocker and here is how you can check these feature settings.

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