Pop-up ads used to be the bane of an Internet user’s experience. Click a random website? Pop-ups. Accidentally follow the wrong link? Pop-ups.
Thankfully, Web browsers and ad blockers have gotten more sophisticated, and pop-ups aren’t as bad as they used to be. But they haven’t gone away entirely—they can still slip through the cracks on your desktop or (worse!) mobile browser, where they can block more of the screen and be harder to dismiss.
In this short article: A primer on the basic tools you can use to block ads and pop-ups on Android phones.
Unlike the desktop Chrome, mobile Chrome does not support plugins. This means you’re left only with Chrome’s native pop-up blocker:
If you use the default Chrome browser on a Samsung mobile phone, you can easily set up the native pop-up blocker. This should at least limit the number of pop-ups you see while browsing Chrome on your Samsung.
If you use the Samsung Internet browser, you have a slightly different way to turn off pop-ups.
Instead of fiddling with ad-block settings and plug-ins, there is another option: Use a browser that blocks all third-party ads and trackers (and pop-ups!) by default. The Brave browser, for example, has a feature called Shields that blocks unwanted ads, pop-ups, and trackers automatically. With Brave, there’s no need to download a third-party ad blocker.
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Click “Save” in the window that pops up, and wait for the download to complete.
Wait for the download to complete (you may need to click “Save” in a window that pops up).
Click the downloaded file at the bottom left of your screen, and follow the instructions to install Brave.
Click the downloaded file at the top right of your screen, and follow the instructions to install Brave.
Click the downloaded file, and follow the instructions to install Brave.
During setup, import bookmarks, extensions, & passwords from your old browser.
Download Brave mobile for privacy on the go.
Click this file to install Brave
Click this file to install Brave
