Banners and contextual advertising, pushing either heaters or sea tours, haunt us on smartphones. You can disable advertising on your phone, get rid of viruses and companies spying on customers using simple settings and a number of useful applications.
Remove viral advertising
When a phone becomes infected with a virus, annoying banners appear on websites, even if there are no advertisements on them. The antivirus will get rid of them. The most popular and convenient are the mobile versions of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android (download for free>>) and ESET Mobile Security for Android (download for free>>). They scan the phone in real time or at the user’s request, identifying dangerous viruses, applications and files. Antiviruses also protect against spam and optimize the operation of the device.
Second option: open the browser memory and “Clear cache”. After getting rid of the data, the device should work without advertising. If nothing has changed, then you need to restore the factory settings on your smartphone by selecting “Restore factory settings” in the “Backup and reset” tab.
Pop-ups in the browser
Often, when visiting websites, windows with product advertisements suddenly appear, covering almost the entire smartphone screen. In order to remove them, you need to go to the “Pop-up windows” section in the additional browser settings and disable this function.
Anti-advertising application
Adguard Content Blocker (free download for Android >>) blocks advertising of any type, but only in Yandex browsers and standard browsers for Samsung phones, without requiring root access to the device.
For iPhone and iPad, you can block annoying ads in Safari using Adblock Plus (free download for iOS>>). It is already used by 400 million people.
Another option is to install a mobile browser with a built-in blocker. Clean MasterBrowser (free download for Android >>) removes annoying windows, banners and video ads, protects against malicious sites, and allows you to surf in incognito mode. It makes it easy to download music and videos online.
Free Adblocker Browser (free download for Android >>) blocks annoying ads of all types, warns about the presence of malware and adware. It saves battery power and data traffic.
In the mid-20th century, David Ogilvy said: “If they talk about advertising, it is bad advertising. If they talk about a product, it is good publicity" These days, there is more talk about advertising, and to be precise, about how to get rid of it. Announcements about sales, promotions, new products, unconventional methods of treatment, methods of express weight loss are everywhere. Even personal applications, programs and, especially, browsers could not avoid this. Fortunately for users (and unfortunately for marketers), there are ways to get rid of the annoying problem in your Android phone or tablet. But first you need to find out why it exists, and then figure out how to remove and disable it
When developing applications, programmers add a special line to the code that is responsible for the periodic appearance of advertisements. It is activated when direct work with the program. Since most products are distributed free of charge, posting such information becomes a way for creators to earn a sandwich.
- small banners at the top or bottom of the window (static ones that do not disappear, or jumping banners that pop up and soon disappear);
- interface advertising - most often these are offers to make a “profitable” purchase or install a certain program through a certain store;
- pop-up ads - a full-screen banner, sometimes with a video file, that appears after some time of working with the program;
- “useful advertising” - offers to voluntarily watch a video, for which you will be given points or some kind of bonuses.
For those who do not want to feed developers of digital products and do charity work for marketers, firewall programs were created to block ads on Android OS.
How to remove and disable advertising on Android devices using firewall programs?
There are many ad removal plugins, but sometimes they require root permission to use - this is permission to use account chief administrator. Using root rights makes it possible to run individual applications that provide the device user with certain advantages.
You can obtain rights using the following applications
| Application | Description |
| Framaroot | A very simple and universal way to obtain Root rights in a couple of clicks. Large list of supported devices. |
| Root | A universal utility for obtaining Root rights on a wide range of devices |
| Root Master | Another universal utility |
| Towelroot | A universal and simple way |
| Z4root for Android | The entire receiving process is in 2 clicks. The list of supported devices is quite large. In addition, it is possible to obtain temporary Root rights, which work on almost all devices. |
| UniversalAndRoot. | The application supports a whole list of devices, and makes it possible to obtain superuser rights in 2 touches. However, the application does not work on all devices. |
Now let's look at the five most popular and effective programs for destroying hateful information.
Was designed to stop unwanted traffic from being sent to your device. With it you will forget about advertising forever. Step-by-step instruction use is given below.
- You can download the program here https://adblockplus.org/android-install.
- Open the file through the package installer.
- Go to your device's settings.
- In the "General" menu, select "Security"/"Applications" (depending on the type of device you have). Look for the line “Unknown sources”. Activate it.
- During installation, a notification will pop up asking you to activate the above line. Thanks to this, you can immediately contact directly the necessary settings, avoiding manual search and saving time.
- Once downloaded, open Ad Blocker. A message will appear indicating that the program cannot change the proxy settings directly on the device. Follow the steps yourself.
- Click "Open" Wi-Fi settings" A menu will appear with available Wi-Fi networks.
- You should press and hold the network you are using until a window pops up to change the network configuration. Click on the line “Change network”.
- A new window will open. Check the box next to "Advanced Settings". Select "Proxy Server" below
- From the options presented, select Manual.
- Enter the proxy host name localhost and proxy port 2020. Now you can save.
Don't forget that if you disable AdBlock Plus, you must set your Wi-Fi settings to default.
also successfully performs the provided functions of removing banners and short ads in the browser. But! Removal advertisements in applications will only be available in the paid version. You can, of course, use the free demo version, but for a limited period. If AdGuard meets all your requirements, you can purchase it.
Install AdGuard:
AdAway- another tool for combating advertising, the peculiarity of which is:
- launching and deactivating in a very simple way;
- in 3G networks, not the entire flow of advertising information is blocked;
- function of “black” as well as “white” lists (query whether to allow advertising access);
Install following the described algorithm.
After removing AdAway, advertising traffic will continue to be blocked. If you need advertising information (although I doubt it), then open AdAway and click on the “Disable ad blocking” item. And only then we erase it from your Android OS.
- Another useful firewall application.
Lucky Patcher - The operating principle of this utility is slightly different than the previous ones. In it, the user initially chooses which application needs to be removed from unnecessary information. This happens in the following way.
- Download and install Lucky Patcher. This is very easy to do by following the prompts of the application itself.
- Go to Lucky Patcher and select the desired application.
- Select the line “Patch Menu” and perform the following actions: Remove advertising > Remove advertising with patch > Patch.
- After completing the process, advertisements in this application will no longer bother you.
For those for whom verbal descriptions are not enough to start cleaning Android, the Drintik channel provides video material.
Almost every owner of a mobile device (phone, tablet) running the Google system sooner or later has a question about how to remove advertising on Android. It is constantly present everywhere, wherever possible: it appears in the form of banners in the browser (for example, on YouTube), pops up in various Android applications. Is it worth mentioning how annoying she is?
However, “intrusiveness” is only a secondary negative property of banners and teasers. First of all, it is recommended to disable advertising on Android due to the fact that it:
- loads RAM, as a result of which the battery discharges faster;
- reduces the level of system security, increases the risk of theft of confidential data;
- consumes Internet traffic without obvious benefit for the device owner (which is extremely undesirable for limited packages, where the volume of downloaded MB/GB is limited).
We cannot ignore the fact that advertising from browsers and applications is the result of the action of special Adware viruses. They secretly penetrate the OS and “plant” their banners on web pages and in the program interface (in the top, bottom, side panels).
Advertising from developers
Note. All of the programs described below are available for download in the Google Play market.
Web sites
Solution #1: Free Adblocker
Free Adblocker is a free browser that can remove ads in online games, blogs, online stores and other web resources. According to the developers, it allows you to get rid of advertising 100%, that is, create the most comfortable web surfing.
Adblocker has a number of advantages in terms of disabling advertising on Android and using the Internet:
- blocks almost all “commercial elements” (promotional videos with downloads completed, banners, pop-ups);
- prevents third-party cookies (from other manufacturers) from being loaded into its memory;
- promptly alerts the user to the presence of an open web page ad viruses, malware;
- significantly reduces battery power consumption and traffic consumption;
- opens pages with lightning speed;
- equipped with all the necessary options and settings (like other popular browsers on Android, for example Yandex).
Solution #2: Adguard
Adguard Content Blocker is a specialized blocker.
- performs blocking for free;
- speeds up downloading web pages;
- saves up to 79% of network traffic;
- is equipped with a large number of settings that allow you to individually configure element filtering.
Download the application, and then in its panel, tap the “Get Started” button.
Global blocking
Method #1: Installing NetGuard
NetGuard is a mobile firewall that controls network connections on a device without root rights. It does not track user actions and does not transmit it to anyone (developers, third parties).
Supports all modern TCP/UDP connection protocols (IPv4, IPv6). Works stably on Android OS versions 4.0 and older. Easy to set up. Prevents unauthorized access to phone resources over the network.
Regarding downloading and installation, it has one remarkable feature, which in the context of the task we are considering cannot be overlooked.
The whole point is that in Google Play The developers have released a version of the firewall without the banner blocking option (apparently fearing system sanctions). That is, if you download the distribution from the Market, you will only be able to use NetGuard for network control.
After launch, while in the firewall interface, select the program in which you want to remove advertising. In the panel that opens, make all the necessary settings (including blocking elements and conditions for connecting to the Network).
Method number 2: replacing the Hosts file manually
Note. The instructions are intended for experienced users only!
The essence of this method is as follows:
1. Download a modified host file from a trusted site with blocking settings that allow you to disable advertising. They operate in the same way as on PC.
For example, 0.0.0.0 ad.a8.net
2. Just in case, create a copy of the hosts file preinstalled in the OS.
3. Using any file manager(for example, Root Explorer) replace hosts with its modified version downloaded from the Internet.
4. Restart your device.
Alternative methods
- If you use Wi-Fi, to remove Google pop-up ads, just enter the address - googleads.g.doubleclick.net in the router options, in the “URL Filter” section.
- To remove banners from websites, it is not necessary to install specialized utilities. IN Firefox browsers,Opera, Google Chrome You can disable advertising in the same way as on a computer - by connecting the Adblock or Adguard addons to them.
Viral advertising
Let's look at some of them:
It accurately detects and removes malware that arbitrarily creates bookmarks in browsers, installs shortcuts on the home screen, and changes the notification panel.
Notifies the user that the installation package contains software Adware is located. Regularly updates its database of adware “strains”.
Powerful scanner. It detects not only the machinations of Adware, but also neutralizes dangerous worms, Trojans, and dialer programs. Can analyze the configuration of a mobile device for vulnerabilities.
Have a comfortable use of your device without advertising!