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Comment by guelo

I was an Android user for many years but what drove me away was the inability to set a system-level adblocker without rooting. The cherry on top was the inability to turn off the unique advertising tracking ID provided by the system. When I found myself setting up a weekly reminder to manually reset the ad tracking ID I realized I was never going to win the fight over control of my own device and I switched.

I don't know what advanced level jiu-jitsu the evil Google product managers are trying to pull off with this adblocker but I am glad I don't have to worry about it anymore. Though I am sad I lost what I once thought was a great champion for users.

parent guelo 9 years ago

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