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Is it a "decent set it and forget it" kind of blocker? Because I might try that on my girlfriend's phone, I tried TrackerControl with her once, but it kept "breaking" some apps and she didn't have the patience to just switch the thing off/on.
I don't understand how people would rather see ads and be tracked than flip a few switches.
That being said, I do think TC would be vastly better if it had per app defaults that guarantee that everything works out of the box.
It is a decent set and forget universal ad blocker, however, you need to make sure you are downloading a v5 and not the v6 or it will not work. Also, you need to deactivate it and reactivate it whenever you restart your phone, this is a minor issue but it needs that kick every time your system reboots.
Full disclaimer though, if you are playing games or running something that relies on ads to work (ie "watch the next ad to get 50 points!" ) blokada may break these types of apps so it may not be suitable for you.
This sounds like a lot of mess to deal with instead of just setting adguard private dns in your phone which generally blocks most ads for me.
I'll give it a shot, most of the ads my gf gets are the unexpected ones from simply opening the app or starting a new brain game
Give adguard dns a go..
https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html