All the news on Smartphone in our articles.
How to remove ads on your smartphone
We will see in this tutorial how to remove ads from your smartphone. If the process may seem complicated the first time, you will see that it is actually quite simple once you get started.
First we will see how to remove ads or publicity natively on your Smartphone using the 'hosts' file. Then we will approach the specific case of applications as 'Adblocker Browser' allowing you to remove and remove the ads on your Smartphone.
Finally, we will conclude on cleaning your Smartphone with applications as 'Ccleaner' or simply by making a factory reboot of your Smartphone.
Remove ads with the 'hosts' file on your Smartphone
The advantage of this method is that it allows you to get rid of advertisements on the internet, applications and any other program on your Smartphone.
Le 'hosts' file on your Smartphone allows you to translate domain names to IP addresses. So when an ad loads, it calls the domain name of the ad's host. All you have to do is tell your Smartphone not to load this domain name.
The advertisement is then no longer displayed on your Smartphone! You can download a 'hosts' file with ad blocking settings from this MVPS hosts file. The easiest way is to download it to your computer first.
Then, to block ads on your Smartphone, you just have to copy it to the “/ system / etc / hosts”, “/ system / etc” or “/ etc” file of your smartphone.
This transfer can be done via a simple USB cable from your computer.
Restart your Smartphone and you are there: ads have been blocked!
Removing Ads with a Third-Party Application on Your Smartphone
Some applications like 'Brave' or even 'Adblocker Browser' for internet surfing, allow you to free yourself from advertisements on your Smartphone.
If you search for 'Adblock', 'ABP' or 'Ad blocker' in your Smartphone's Play Store, you will usually only find internet browsers, which do not allow you to block ads in apps or in popular browsers. more famous. If you want a simple and effective solution, however, we recommend that you go through this type of browser.
Indeed, companies in advertising deriving a great source of their profit from the mobile advertising, they are in no rush to promote such blockers on the Play Store.
You therefore have to manually install such an ad blocker on your Smartphone.
Here's how to do it below.
Prepare your smartphone to install an ad blocker
By default your Smartphone does not allow you to install applications outside the Google Play Store.
However, you can configure it to be able to install your ad blocker.
To do this, all you have to do is click on 'settings' on the main screen of your Smartphone.
Then go to the 'security' submenu. Then, you will have to check 'unknown sources' to authorize your Smartphone to install an application outside the Play Store.
Once validated, you can go to the second step below.
Install the ad blocker on your smartphone
To install the ad blocker, simply go to your application search engine preferred with your internet browser from your smartphone.
Once there you can type 'ad block' : You will have access to a choice of applications and download links. You will then need to download a 'apk' file, corresponding to the desired application.
We invite you to carefully read the elements on each of the download pages. The previous step have allowed you to install 'apk' files on your Smartphone.
You just need to go to the folder where the file was downloaded and follow the instructions.
Once the steps have been validated, you will normally have blocked and removed advertisements on your Smartphone.
Clean your Smartphone to avoid malware and intrusive ads
In many cases, intrusive advertisements on your smartphone come from malware or 'malware' installed on your phone.
These software can be included in games or any other application. In this case, we recommend that you use an application to clean your Smartphone, such as 'Ccleaner' or by typing 'remove malware' in the Play Store search bar of your Smartphone.
Be sure to check the ratings and comments of these apps before installing them.
We do not detail in this tutorial how each of these applications works, but you will be able to surf more freely once this cleaning is done.
The last, more brutal solution is to perform a restart with factory settings of your Smartphone.
Called in English 'factory reset' or 'hard reset', this will allow you to get rid of any malware installed on your phone.
We invite you to refer to our section on factory restart to perform this operation safely. In particular, you will have to make a backup of your data under penalty of losing all your personal data with this factory restart.
We hope this tutorial for remove advertisements on your smartphone will have allowed you to block intrusive advertisements.
Find all our articles on Smartphone to help you.