There is adblocking on Android.

alecco · on July 30, 2015

Ad blocking is very expensive. The iOS approach is the best idea. Have you seen the cost in memory and CPU of browser ad blocker extensions? That's prohibitive in mobile.

mizzack · on July 30, 2015

Adaway just modifies your /etc/hosts file to redirect ad domains to localhost. That definitely doesn't seem expensive...

coldpie · on July 30, 2015

Parsing a huge /etc/hosts for every single hostname lookup certainly is expensive.

mizzack · on July 30, 2015

I'm not sure what the practical limits are on host file size, but I just checked my phone with up to date AdAway lists and it's sitting at 56429 lines (with about 10 or so of those being comments)

recursive · on July 30, 2015

It seems unlikely that it's actually implemented that way.

Nexxxeh · on July 30, 2015

Have you tried Firefox and uBlock (maybe uBlock0, I forget) on a reasonable Android phone? It is amazing, and vastly superior to any other mobile browsing I've tried. Including Safari on an iPad.