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What are my options on Android? Switching browsers and side loaded apks?

I use ad-away. It requires root, but it can block ads in any browser or app.

I think Firefox Focus has ad blocking built-in.

Regular Firefox Mobile can have uBlock Origin added.

Just use Firefox, they allow extensions on mobile and you can download Firefox from the regular app store.

If you use Firefox as your browser app you can install all the same add-ons as the desktop version. uBlock Origin is great.

If you are on android 9 you can set a Private DNS that will stop loading of most ads on the whole system.

the one I use is dns.adguard.com

I prefer Ad Nauseum since it effectively generates garbage data on the ad platforms while giving the content creators the clicks they want.

Wouldn't that be click fraud?

Who cares?

People that use/believe the "giving the content creators the clicks they want" line should care.

Indiscriminate click fraud means small advertisers get screwed too.

Ghostery isn't great: it sends a lot of analytics data back and injects its own ads.

What's better?