AdAway / AdAway

AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android.
https://adaway.org
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Is it viable to add a non-list based blocking? (like the uMatrix extension) #1229

Open smnthermes opened 5 years ago

Vankog commented 5 years ago

That's not the main intention of the app. AdAway only applies blocking rules passively by configuring the systems own capabilities. Implementing a dynamic blocking like uMatrix is a completely separate approach. In fact there are already several apps that do exactly that. Usually by routing all traffic through a local VPN service, where the filtering can happen. But this is an active approach, which needs a background service running all the time.