Here is the tricky part: there are millions of them! Tracker domains and IPs change all the time, and it’s almost impossible to block them all at a given time. Fortunately, iodé uses different techniques to block as many as possible and lets you personalize it in a way that suits you best!
The first technique is to use IP blocking on top of DNS blocking. As briefly mentioned in the previous point, the blocker locally stores IP addresses for geolocation but also to make the IP blocking.
Secondly, with our adblocker, you have the possibility to fine-tune the blockings for each of your apps. By default, a standard blocking is activated. The standard list aggregates several hundred thousand trackers from open source lists such as Energized Protection, StevenBlack, oisd, blocklistproject. That is enough to keep pretty much all your Android apps to function but unfortunately doesn’t block all trackers. If you want to be more strict in your blocking, you can reinforce the blocking and use our aggregated list that contains more than 2 million domains. But that’s not all: from the blocker you can also block sensitive content, unethical social medias, or customize your own list. Talking about customization, you can define regular expressions too.
Finally, you can set the network you want to block (mobile data, WIFI, VPN) and perform network blocking for any app.
