The SP Android: September 2020

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<p>
  If you never used an advertisement blocker or do not even know that such
  things exists, this article is for you. A normal users who buys a smartphone
  for just clicking pictures and browsing social media never pays much attention
  to the ads which is being shown to him/her. These kinds of people are mostly
  OKAY with them and can wait 10 to 15 seconds to watch an advertisement in a
  Android app.
</p>
<p>
  Android apps servers advertisements in different forms, such as text, banners
  and videos. People download random apps and games from Play Store and served
  with advertisements within 5 minutes or even less. Some apps do it very
  aggressively and bombard users with ads after tapping something in the
  app. 
</p>
<p>
  You can block all these kinds of advertisements easily on any android phone
  and save some time as well as you can take advantages of your full phone
  screen. When these advertisement are blocked, the banner ads which you see in
  bottom of app or at other parts of app, they all disappear. <br />
</p>
<p>
  There are three easy ways you can blocks ads on your Android phone. One of
  these methods require you to have a rooted phone and the other two methods
  works without root for almost everyone. I am going to discuss about the
  non-root methods first because an average Android does not understand what
  Root is.
</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span>Non-Root Method</span></h2>
<br />There are two methods for blocking ads on non-rooted Android.
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  <h4 style="text-align: left;"><br />1. Private DNS (Android 9+).</h4>
  <div style="text-align: left;">
    Android 9 introduced the private DNS feature. It is available in most
    android phones running Android 9 and above. Some phone manufacturers hides
    this options in their software so the user can not access it. As far as I
    know it is hidden somewhere deep in MIUI android pie and you have to find it
    using Activity Launcher app. If you are not sure if its available in your
    Settings of your phone (usually its under Network/Internet settings) , you
    can search on Google about it. Once you find it, you can follow below steps,
    otherwise you can use the second method.
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  <div style="text-align: left;">
    We gonna use adguard DNS to block ads. Adguard provides DNS service which
    also blocks ads requests from your network. 
  </div>
  <div style="text-align: left;">
    <b>How to set adguard as your private DNS- </b>
  </div>
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      <li>
        Find the Private DNS settings first. For me, its in
        <b>Settings > Network & Internet</b> 
      </li>
      <li>
        Tap on <b>Private DNS</b> and then check on
        <b>"Private DNS provider hostname".</b>
      </li>
      <li>
        Now enter <b><i>dns.adguard.com </i></b>in the text field and tap on
        Save.
      </li>
      <li>Thats it. You enabled it successfully.</li>
    </ol>
  There are other DNS address which you can use for blocking ads. If you have
    trust issues with these DNS providers, please search on Google about them
    before trying. Also remember that if your internet gives any kind of issue
    when Private DNS is turned on, it means that the DNS provider is working
    slow. You can try turning it off and see if everything goes back to
    normal.<br />

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    <ul style="text-align: left;">
      <li>
        <i>dns-family.adguard.com </i>(same as above DNS but this one blocks
        porn websites too)
      </li>
      <li><i>dns.quad9.net</i></li>
    </ul>
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    <h4 style="text-align: left;">2. VPN based Ad Blockers</h4>
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  <div style="text-align: left;">
    Its clear from the name, this method utilize the VPN connection feature of
    Android to block ads. This is by far gives the best results in blocking
    advertisements. Well, you don't have to setup VPNs manually. We are going to
    use some trusted third party apps which can turn on/off advertisement
    blocking with just one tap. 
  </div>
  <div style="text-align: left;">
    For this article, I am going to use DNS66 app, which is an open source app.
    It is hosted on Fdroid and is completely safe to use. 
    <br /><br />
  </div>

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      <li>
        Download DNS66 from
        <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fdroid. </a><a href="https://f-droid.org/repo/org.jak_linux.dns66_26.apk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(Direct Link)</a>
      </li>
      <li>Install the apk and launch DNS66.</li>
      <li>Tap on the refresh icon shown in top right.</li>
      <li>
        Tap on the big <b>START</b> button and allow the app to make VPN
        connection. 
      </li>
      <li>
        It everything goes fine, it will be enabled and you can have adfree
        experience now (mostly).
      </li>
    </ol>
  </div>
  <div style="text-align: left;">
    Qaud66 allows you to add custom hosts file by adding a direct URL to it. If
    you are new and do not want to bother search for Hosts files, the default
    option is fine. You can find more hosts file at
    <a href="https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/EnergizedHosts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Energized Protection.</a>
    In DNS66, you can even select apps in which you want to apply ad blocking.
    Blockada, Adguard and AdClear are some other apps which works on the same
    principle of VPN based blocking.<br />
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    <h2 style="text-align: left;"><span>Root based Ad blocker</span></h2>
    <div style="text-align: left;">
      Root based ad blockers were used to be a thing years ago when root was
      popular. The availability of VPN based root blockers reduced the usage of
      root based ad blockers. Adaway is one such app which is still being
      updated by developers. Since we are talking about root based ad blockers,
      Energized Protection should be mentioned here also. Its not an app
      actually, its a magisk module. People who are familiar with root/Magisk
      modules would find it easy to install it. The same goes for AdAway app as
      well. Energized protection is more powerful as compared to AdAway, but
      personally for me, its a hassle to whitelist and blacklist links in it.
      AdAway is easy in case of white/blacklisting URLs.
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      <b><br /></b>
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    <div style="text-align: left;"><b>How to use AdAway</b></div>
    <div style="text-align: left;">
      AdAway works fine on lower versions below pie. And for Android Pie+, users
      have to enable systemless hosts from magisk manager settings. It is
      because of some read write protection introduced in system by Google. Here
      are the steps to use AdAway-
      <br /><br /><br />
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    <div style="text-align: left;">
      <ol style="text-align: left;">
        <li>
          Install
          <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.adaway/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AdAway apk from Fdroid</a> 
        </li>
        <li>
          Skip this second step if you are not running Android Pie+. If you are
          using pie or above, first go to Magisk Manager settings and enable
          Systemless hosts option. Reboot after enabling that option and follow
          the next steps as usual.
        </li>
        <li>Open the AdAway and grant root permission. </li>
        <li>
          Tap on the big red "Enable Ad-Blocking" button which you see in the
          main page.
        </li>
        <li>
          Thats it, you are done. In some cases, it requires a reboot for
          changes to take effect. I have personally tested it on Android Pie and
          ten, and it works fine without reboot.
        </li>
      </ol>
    </div>
    <div style="text-align: left;">
      You can specify more hosts sources by adding urls of raw hosts files. It
      also allows blacklisting and whitelisting of URLs, making it easier to add
      and remove URLs when something goes wrong.<br />
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<p>
  Firefox on Android recently released the newly designed browser which brought
  newly designed tab switcher, search bar location customization, tab
  collections, and access to limited add-ons. These changes, as compared to old
  version of Firefox left some users in anger because the new Firefox took away
  the ability to use thousands of other Firefox add-ons. Meanwhile Firefox said
  that full add-on support will come again in future. For now they are focusing
  on improving other things.
</p>
<p>
  With Firefox For Android Version 81.0 beta 2, Firefox is bringing some major
  changes which you will surely appreciate. Here are some noticeable changes in
  the recent beta update.  </p><p><br />
</p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span>Improved search bar</span></h2>
<p>
  The first thing I want to highlight is the improved search experience. In
  earlier version, when bottom toolbar was enabled the search bar went to top
  when we wanted to search for anything. This behavior is changed a little and
  the bottom bar stays on bottom while we type anything for search.
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span>External download manager support</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">
  When Firefox rolled out new version with overhauled design, one thing was
  surely missing - Download Manager. Firefox finally added a Download Manager
  section which can be easily accessed by three dot menu. As a bonus, they have
  also added support for external download managers. Apps like ADM and IDM on
  Android will surely benefit from this which are more advanced download
  managers as compared to default download managers of Android.
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span>Suggested logins</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">
  With suggested logins, Firefox is making it easy to login from different
  accounts on a website. Suggested logins is a nice addition to Firefox, it adds
  an "Suggested Logins" strip on top of your keyboard whenever you are about to
  sign in on a website. If you have multiple accounts on a website, you can
  choose which account information you want to be auto-filled for signing in.
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span>Other improvements </span></h2>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
  <li>In app review prompt for leaving a review for Firefox.</li>
  <li>
    Notification controls. You can enable/disable notifications from different
    categories through the "Notifications" setting in the app info of Firefox.
  </li>
  <li>
    Close tabs automatically after a certain period of time. You can choose
    between 1 day/1 week/1 month or you can keep closing tabs manually.
  </li>
  <li>
    Top sites suggestion now have two pages and you can swipe between them.
    <br />
  </li>
  <li>Unlock previously set Primary Password, if set.</li>
  <li>Other bug fixes.</li>
</ul>
<p>
  Firefox is improving its user experience with all these new changes and we can
  see it catching up with old Firefox features as well as addition of new
  features.
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