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    • 22rw@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      If you dont mind me asking - how would root improve this Situation? (I’ve got little to non knowledge about rooting)

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        1 year ago

        Besides it being more effective at blocking ads and trackers it won’t require a VPN connection to work

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          1 year ago

          This, you don’t have to even run a program. Every phone uses the host file all day all the time anyway, you’re just telling it to load nothing instead of usual behavior of “no it’s not hosted here, go get it online” you’re just saying “no, don’t go get it, it’s hosted here” except it’s not, so it isn’t retrieved at all.

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        It would give you access to the host file Before anything connects to the internet, it checks the host file to see if the address is already located there. (Why download it again if it’s already stored locally?) So one can use the host file to list all the ad networks you done like and POOF all those ads are gone (unless you’re actually hosting them from your phone, but you’re not so it will return null)

        The problem is, the host file is a system file you can’t access without root access. Try it on your home pc 🖥 https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm