How to prevent myself from accidentaly opening android ads? So, quite often i miss the little &quot;X&quot; in the corner of my phone screen when trying to close an ad. It then opens in quick succession my default browser and then the play store. This process is enough to make my phone reach the end of its performance, meaning that any taps on the &quot;Back&quot;-Button etc. cause a few seconds of lag, causing major annoyance on my side.
Searching for solutions only yielded articles describing measures by Google reducing the likeliness of these accidental clicks by ignoring very early clicks after the ad loads etc..
But i noticed that quite often the browser opens a link starting with some kind of &quot;ad-relay&quot;-sounding url-names (&quot;ad4m.at&quot;, &quot;ad4mat.de&quot;, &quot;ad4.adfarm1&quot;...) and i was wondering if i could at least make my browser ask for my confirmation before sending me to the follow-up page. I am using Chrome and could not find anything like that in the settings, but i would be willing to change browsers if another one supports this feature but Chrome does not.
I would also be happy about alternative solutions to my problem, if there are any.
I typically use the back button. Since it's not on the screen (Samsung J3V) I don't run the risk of accidentally tapping on the ad. But there are times when the back button doesn't work, which is frustrating, and you just have to use the small X.