TrackerControl — a way to neutralize in-app trackers

Here’s my ongoing little experience about this.

After some months with Blokada, and some advice from @harvey186, I recently moved to Tracker Control.

After some days with it, no issue, very smooth app, quite discrete about battery usage.

But when comparing to what blokada listed as blocked stuff … I found quite a difference.

And thinking it a bit, of course there is (I’m an idiot :slight_smile: : Tracker Control blocks trackers by default, but not ads (see https://github.com/OxfordHCC/tracker-control-android/blob/master/ADBLOCKING.md) ; or at least not much, as the default hosts file shipped with Tracker Control is not aimed at that !

So I grabbed a good host file from Steven Black (https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts) and imported it into Tracker Control (append mode, to keep original = default entries).

Let’s see how it goes :

  • will some more blocked stuff appera in reports ?
  • what about battery usage ?

Hoping this can help :slight_smile:

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