2 Ways to Remove Ads from Android Browser
Android is a popular mobile platform that is running on billions of mobiles and tablet across the globe. People use Android mobiles because this is affordable and comes with great features. However, if you use a smart web browser that comes with javascript support, you will get loads of ads. Advertisement is the main source of income for bloggers and nowadays, advertisements have reached to a new level. You cannot understand whether you are clicking on ad or malware.
There are many attackers, who use malware inside the javascript to harm mobiles and computer. On computer, you can simply use AdBlcoker in browser to block ads. But, on mobile, this is quite tricky. There are some ad blockers for Android those require rooting.
But, today’s article will let you remove ads from Android browser. The most interesting thing is you do not need to root your device. Here are two methods and both are working fine.
NoChrome
Google has two different versions of their popular browser. Google Chrome and Chromium. Google Chrome for Android doesn’t have any option to block ads while browsing. But, you can remove ads if you are familiar with Google Chromium. NoChrome is a modified version of this popular open source web browser that comes at free of cost. You do not need to root your device either. In a simple line, you can browse internet without advertisements through NoChrome.
However, NoChrome is not available on Google Play Store. You have to download it from XDA developers forum. But, the process is very easy. Just head over to this XDA thread and download the respective file. Following that, go to Settings >> Security and toggle the Unknown Sources button. It will let you install apps from outside of Google Play Store.
After that, install the downloaded app in your mobile. That’s it! Now, you can browse internet without advertisements. Ad blocks will be blank.
Adblock browser for Android
This is an awesome Android web browser, which is available on Google Play Store and this is absolutely free. Before installing, you should know that this is quite large in size (around 38MB) and it is available for Android 2.3 and later version. However, this web browser is one of the most popular web browsers out there and it has been downloaded more than 1000k times from Google Play Store. This web browser is developed by AdBlockPlus, which is a popular ad blocker for PC web browsers.
Anyway, you can just download the app and browse internet through this. You do not have to do anything apart from installing this web browser. It will automatically detect advertisements on a webpage and block that right away. You will get blank space on your screen.
Final Word
Although, ad is the main source of income of bloggers, yet, some people use it to spread malware and spyware to mobile and PC. To block this, you can simply use anyone of these two methods.