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Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light
(www.wired.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Indeed, that is just an ad blocker. I looked at their github and it hasn't been updated in 7 years.
For good basic ad blocking you might want to try something like https://controld.com/free-dns which works well. No app required, just set it in your DNS on Android.
If you want more finetuning look at the app https://www.rethinkdns.com/
For bypassing pay walls you want something like Cromite (Chromium) or better Firefox, or a privacy fork like Mull.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" has been my model 😉 And Wired aside, it does work phenomenally well. But I will take a look at your suggestion.