Based on our record, AdAway seems to be a lot more popular than uMatrix. While we know about 73 links to AdAway, we've tracked only 5 mentions of uMatrix. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
AdAway can install itself as a VPN provider on your Android phone for the sole purpose of modifying traffic and blocking content. It is not actually a VPN. https://adaway.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Seeing this I'm even more happy that I use AdAway. Source: 10 months ago
If filtering is done locally on the device itself (i.e. Like in AdAway, DNS66, NetGuard or personalDNSfilter) it's not. Source: 11 months ago
I switched to AdAway once the whole VPN/"reading your private connection requests" advertising came up in Blokada. Source: 11 months ago
I have installed Lineage OS 13 on my OP 6T, then added Magisk to be able to launch as root. It was initially for AdAway to run as super user. Revolut complained and refused to start. Source: 11 months ago
You can upgrade the uBlock blocking mode to something better than what you are currently using, the Raymond Hill(or just gorhill)'s wiki explains how to do it. Https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode. Source: almost 1 year ago
My mind immediately went to uMatrix or uBlockOrigin. Just want to note that, so far as I can tell, this is not associated with the author (gorhill) of those other tools: https://github.com/gorhill. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I was feeling the same, just yesterday. Nothing but respect for gorhill. Source: almost 2 years ago
Today though, I'd recommend skimming through uBlock Origin's Github readme: https://github.com/gorhill. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
I think trying to piggy-back upon the success of Gorhill's uBlock and uMatrix with your naming, is a bit snidey. https://github.com/gorhill. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
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