In most any browser on Windows, such as Chrome, Firefox, or Edge, finding an ad-blocking extension is a two-click solution. Yet, the process for properly blocking ads on a phone is exponentially more complicated, and the fact that many websites have their own apps such as Youtube mean that you might have to find an ad-blocking solution for each app on a case-by-case approach. Why is this the case?
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You said it yourself: they have their own apps. Using an app instead of a website on a phone a bit better (but not always the best) since it looks nicer and the buttons aren’t too small. But for a computer, an ad-blocker in the form of an extension is a convenient workaround since everything is in a browser. There are alternatives to an extension on Android, like a self-hosting VPN that filters out domains that host ads (not sure if I worded it correctly), or modifying the hosts file to do the same thing (requires root since it’s located in `/system/etc`).
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