Many times we think that our mobile phones work badly because the Internet network to which we are connected is slow or because we have too much data that takes up a lot of storage in the memory of our device.
While it is correct to think like that , but most of the time our phones work slowly by a mysterious and silent enemy that we have housed in them, without us let’s realize your presence.
They are the commercials that noticeably harm our phone and also our privacy. Today we bring you everything concerning invasive advertising for Android phones , we want to show you everything you need to know about ads and how to remove them.
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Why remove ads and invasive advertising from your Android device? Advantages
The marketing strategies of companies that make their ads over the Internet show the same product, or a variety of these , to the same user in an insistent way. These pop-ups are not only a visual nuisance but also generate loss of concentration and time when we surf the Internet.
There are different advantages, which we want to show you now, so that you know that blocking invasive advertising is one of the best things you can do informatically.
Next, we detail what those advantages are and what is to block or remove the ads and invasive advertising on your device with Android operating system :
Improves the user experience
The user experience in internet browsing is the psychological factor where the expectations and experiences that the user had previously is conditioned.
It is closely related to the comfort, intuition and emotional behavior that applications have in computer systems when using the navigator.
We mentioned this before you because the commercial ads cause a negative experience, since the comfort and emotional behavior we have when we navigate are at stake.
When we remove the advertising visually we have a better perspective of the application we are using, the reading becomes more enjoyable and the time it takes to finish our articles is less.
Having a reading or viewing of a video without interruptions, results in the acquisition of concepts and understanding of the article we read or saw will be greater.
Improve Internet speed
By granting advertising permission in our browser, we are granting authorization for different files or data to load in parallel with the page with which we want to navigate.
This procedure generates a resource expense of our telephone and Internet , since it needs more processes to be able to download the requested protocols of the page and of the advertising, using at the same time greater capacity of downloading data from the Internet.
If we had advertisements blocked, Internet speed would be significantly improved because it would only address the requested page load and not background pages generated by advertising files.
Avoid malicious files
The Association for Media Research at its 18th meeting provided accurate information about how advertising influences Internet performance. Almost 60% of those surveyed by this study said that there is too much publicity, being an important concern, the infection that devices may have due to viruses or spyware.
With this we want to explain that every time there is persuasive advertising aimed directly at our consumption, there is a great risk that this link, which you are redirected to, has a malicious file or maybe it is a virus that can affect your system Android operating.
If we avoid or block advertisements we will be able to significantly reduce the risk of “Malware” and “Adware” or infections on our mobile. We will also avoid Phishing practices, which are done with Ads files .
Money saving
The advertisements, having to be downloaded with data services offered by telephone companies, use the same data considerably.
When we decide to block the ads we will realize the savings we obtained at the end of the month with this point .
Avoid advertising bad taste
Many times we wanted to avoid an advertising banner by closing or clicking on a cross that is within reach of our hands, immediately inappropriate images appear for minors, or simply visually unpleasant.
We will avoid these situations when we block our mobile ads.
What are the safest and most used methods to remove ads on Android ?
Luckily there are methods to avoid persuasive advertisements that affect our daily lives . For this we are going to show you the main methods that are currently used and that are characterized by their security to eliminate ads on Android.
Data saving in Chrome
When we activate the data saving option we can block advertising on our Android Smartphone.
In order to access that, we will have to:
- We will have to go to the option “ Configuration ”
- We look for “ Data saving ” and we will have to click on it
- At this time we will have to slide the switch on top to be able to have the option
active
Once we have activated this option, Google will prevent unwanted advertising when we browse . For this to happen, the browser will compress the pages before we download them and analyze their content.
Keep in mind that Google will not index the pages on which we access with the HTTPS network protocol or with an incognito mode tab .
A disadvantage presented by this method is that the interface that some pages will present will not look quite beautiful, rather it will be possible to observe “ flat ” or “ without an attractive form .
Using the Opera browser
This browser offers an advertising block in an integrated way for different operating systems, this means that simply by activating this option we can avoid invasive ads.
To install the Opera browser we will have to follow these steps:
- In “ Google Play Store ” we search the search bar “ Opera ”
- We The browser we want to install will appear as the first option
- We click on “ Install ”
- Performed this step will give us the option of “ Open ”
Once we have installed Opera, what we have to do now is activate the ad blocker.
For this to happen, we will perform the following simple process:
- Open the browser
- Click on the bottom right, looking for the Opera logo
- Choose the logo and it will appear in first of all the option of “ Block advertising ”
- We choose the switch and we try to remain blue
With an ad blocker
Another way to block ads is through an application dedicated exclusively to this. For devices with Android system, in Google Play Store you will find different Apps that work very well. All you have to do is choose the one that suits you best, download and use it.
Later we will detail the best blockers that you will find in the market.
Steps to block ads on your Android while browsing the internet
All browsers that currently exist offer the ability to block ads. Each of them has a different system in terms of the steps that must be taken to activate them, but they provide similar results.
We’ll show you how to block ads on an Android device while you’re browsing the Internet.
From Chrome
If we want to block ads directly in Chrome, we will have to do the following:
- We open our browser on the mobile
- We enter the three points vertically
- Select « Website settings «
- We choose two options, the first one is « Pop-up windows «. This will ensure that websites cannot show us their pop-up windows when we click on specific places
- The second option we have to choose is « Ads «, in this way we can block all the ads of the Internet sites that want to show us their invasive advertisements.
From Opera
This browser is characterized by having an ad blocker integrated, which is very simple to perform the steps that we will mention below:
- For the process to work, we will have to open the browser
- We look for the Opera logo, it is a red “O”, that is located on our right, in the lower margin of our screen
- When we select the logo, we will see “ Block advertising ”
- We will have to choose the switch not be gray, but blue
With this simple procedure we will avoid seeing annoying advertisements when we browse the Internet.
From Mozilla Firefox
The blocking of pop-up windows in this browser is activated by default , so our concern is less since every time the browser blocks a window, an ad warning appears in the address bar specific icon warning us that you have done the job.
As we want to show you in detail all the steps for each browser, we will assume that pop-up blocking is not activated.
To do this we must configure their blocking, with the following method:
- Open the browser
- We look for the option « Menu «
- Next, we choose « Options «
- Then select « Privacy and security «
- We will see « Permissions «, which we must choose
- If we need to make an exception for any site we will have to choose « .. » by writing the name from the site we want to excepte
And we will check the box « Block pop-up windows «
How to block the advertising of your entire Android mobile with an app?
If you have decided to install an application to block advertising, we recommend that you perform the steps that we will mention below so that you avoid future surprises regarding your security and user experience Internet.
For this we will take for example the application « Security Master « , which is very popular and to configure it to work perfectly you must perform these steps:
- Open Google Play Store, type in the search bar « adsblocker » and a list of all the apps available for this work will not appear.
- We choose « Security Master «
- We look for the green bar of « Install «
- We accept and we will show the installation process
- We choose below « Open «
- And at this moment it will ask us to start the verification process, for this we press « START «
- For this we will receive a welcome message with a character called « Tipi » which we will have to press the « Discover «.