Based on our record, AdAway seems to be a lot more popular than VirusTotal. While we know about 73 links to AdAway, we've tracked only 1 mention of VirusTotal. 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 / 9 months ago
Seeing this I'm even more happy that I use AdAway. Source: about 1 year ago
If filtering is done locally on the device itself (i.e. Like in AdAway, DNS66, NetGuard or personalDNSfilter) it's not. Source: about 1 year ago
I switched to AdAway once the whole VPN/"reading your private connection requests" advertising came up in Blokada. Source: about 1 year 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: about 1 year ago
On a side note Virus Total is a good site to check before you click/download something. Source: almost 2 years ago
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