This release doesn’t have a Play Store Description, so we grabbed one from model 4.2.8:
AdAway is an delivery offer ad blocker for Android utilizing the hosts file. adaway.org/
An ad blocker that makes narrate of the hosts file. The hosts file contains a list of mappings between hostnames and IP addresses. When an app requests an ad, that inquire of is directed to 127.0.0.1 which does nothing. There are alternate choices to trail a net server to answer to blocked hostnames and to declare requests to the IP address of your choosing. That it’s possible you’ll obtain hosts recordsdata from the app but it’s possible to narrate your maintain and so to add definite net sites to the white- and dark-lists.
Requires root because the hosts recordsdata is located in /machine which is mostly learn-handiest.
AdAway 4.2.9