Hey Guys,
I seem to have installed a program that at random opens up webpage with programs? And at random it opens up a pop-up with the same crappy programs...
Do you guys know of a way to find out which program that does this? And a way to clean all excess spam that it might have installed?
- Thanks in advance
- Bobo
you have to think which apps you installed just before those annoying things pop up. Otherwise try installing AD-Free from the market.
nm8 said:
you have to think which apps you installed just before those annoying things pop up. Otherwise try installing AD-Free from the market.
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Thanks, I will try adfree
-Are there any other ideas?
- Bobo
I use these to keep my phones junk free:
AirPush Detector
AdAway
avast! Mobile Security
The first two will be fine if you just want to block ads but I like the added protection of avast! too.
It also helps to read the comments before installing any new apps as people will usually complain about spam and ads if they're deployed in sneaky manner
Great thanks for this...
- Bobo
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Just curious if anyone is experiencing more ads within apps when using the new market. I've had ad-free for a while and has been working, but last night I downloaded words with friends and the ads are still there. Could it be something with the new market or just something built into words with friends and can't be blocked?
The new market definitely has more ads on it, but no it would not affect the apps that you download from it.
I know there are a couple of apps that have ads that adfree has not blocked yet.
That's what I thought but just wanted to double check. Thank you.
Hi Guys,
I am getting some weird notifications every now and then.
I don't know which application is forcing them to appear but I cant get hold of it, this is really irritating.
Sometimes because of this some application icons automatically come on my home screen and when I open them I am taken to Google Play to install them.
Is there a way I can find out what is causing this kind of behavior..
Check the screenshot.\
Praddz
praddz said:
Hi Guys,
I am getting some weird notifications every now and then.
I don't know which application is forcing them to appear but I cant get hold of it, this is really irritating.
Sometimes because of this some application icons automatically come on my home screen and when I open them I am taken to Google Play to install them.
Is there a way I can find out what is causing this kind of behavior..
Check the screenshot.\
Praddz
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I would love to check the screenshot.... if there was one.
praddz said:
Hi Guys,
I am getting some weird notifications every now and then.
I don't know which application is forcing them to appear but I cant get hold of it, this is really irritating.
Sometimes because of this some application icons automatically come on my home screen and when I open them I am taken to Google Play to install them.
Is there a way I can find out what is causing this kind of behavior..
Check the screenshot.\
Praddz
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Screenshot is where? Is it tapatalk or just me? I know alot of notifications that are spam but each one comes with its own symbol so until i see i cant help.
Sent from the phone of Gamers
gmaster1 said:
Screenshot is where? Is it tapatalk or just me? I know alot of notifications that are spam but each one comes with its own symbol so until i see i cant help.
Sent from the phone of Gamers
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Sorry guys... screenshot attached..
I dont knw why bt my phone app and website are not in sync.. i am unable to find the post created by me in the phone app..
Advert. Only one of ur apps would have this. Go through and delete apps (and games if u want but games are usualy ad free unless theres ingame ads) or to save time download trustgo (not by me) it is an anti virus thing but it also detects ads in apps. (who knew some ads could send data)
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gmaster1 said:
Advert. Only one of ur apps would have this. Go through and delete apps (and games if u want but games are usualy ad free unless theres ingame ads) or to save time download trustgo (not by me) it is an anti virus thing but it also detects ads in apps. (who knew some ads could send data)
Sent from the phone of Gamers
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But I see the same * sign the settings of XDA developers app.
It says 'News'..
Praddz
Glad someone else is having this issue. I have received 3 weird notifications and can't figure out what the problem is.
praddz said:
But I see the same * sign the settings of XDA developers app.
It says 'News'..
Praddz
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Thats one thing but the xda tapatalk app push notification is just the xda sign in a speech bubble for subscribed threads only. If you ask the admin or mod or someone who knows the app inside-out they will tell you that xda dosnt do push notification ads. That star is a ad. I realy do recomend deleting apps until it go's or get an ad detector app. They are push ads and ive had them before and i know what they are.
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Thats one thing but the xda tapatalk app push notification is just the xda sign in a speech bubble for subscribed threads only. If you ask the admin or mod or someone who knows the app inside-out they will tell you that xda dosnt do push notification ads. That star is a ad. I realy do recomend deleting apps until it go's or get an ad detector app. They are push ads and ive had them before and i know what they are.
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Run Addons Detector, I had a similar problem, Ringdroid used to push ads in the notification bar after which i uninstalled it.
I found an app to take care of this advertisement stuff..
Air Push Detector
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en
Con: You will have to uninstall your beloved app.
It did tell me one app which was using Push Ads, and I uninstalled that, till now no Ads.
Workaround:
Airpush Permanent Optout
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airpush.optoutapp&hl=en
No need of app Uninstall, this will prevent 'AirPush' only Ads from popping up onto the notification bar, varying reviews for this app so did not use it.
Will keep you guys updated.
Praddz
Internet explorer isn't that fast and is slow on the preview of 8.1. is thee a way to make IE faster. Maybe by getting an ad blocker which I canno tfind any. For example facebook on ie is laggy?
malberti1993 said:
Internet explorer isn't that fast and is slow on the preview of 8.1. is thee a way to make IE faster. Maybe by getting an ad blocker which I canno tfind any. For example facebook on ie is laggy?
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There is an adblocker of sorts built into Internet explorer. Tracking lists. There are guides posted around on how to enable them for IE. By the way, popups and ads are not the same (bit of thread title vs content confusion there)
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There is an adblocker of sorts built into Internet explorer. Tracking lists. There are guides posted around on how to enable them for IE. By the way, popups and ads are not the same (bit of thread title vs content confusion there)
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Oops i meant ads. I have popups under control, but i feel like if we can disable ads it would make ie more faster. For example like chromes adblock. I dont really like the tracking list way.
malberti1993 said:
Oops i meant ads. I have popups under control, but i feel like if we can disable ads it would make ie more faster. For example like chromes adblock. I dont really like the tracking list way.
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in fact, if you go to Settings, Safety, Turn on Tracking Protection and then click on Get a Tracking Protection List Online at bottom of the window that opens, choose the EasyList Standard - most of the ads are gone. In fact, some of the sites I was not able to open anymore or had terrible lags are opening fine now and do not display ads.
cheers
Post above is exactly what I meant. I have seen GoodDayToDie recommending easylist, have tried it myself, works as well as the adblock extension to google chrome.
EasyList Standard (instructions above) works very well. That's really all that you need for websites, but another option is to go with a HOSTS file, such as the one at http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm. Unzip it and copy HOSTS to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc, overwriting the one there. According to that site, if you're on Windows 8--which we are--you should exclude that file in Windows Defender, or else it will think that malware has changed the file and will undo your replacement.
Dear All, I don't know exactly why an airpush ads start popup in my galaxy not 2 (android 4.3) when I open any application even the system ones.
see the attached pics>
Would you please help in this issue
shingir said:
Dear All, I don't know exactly why an airpush ads start popup in my galaxy not 2 (android 4.3) when I open any application even the system ones.
see the attached pics>
Would you please help in this issue
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I'm sure this is cased by one of your apps !
cheak it all, especially the free ones " streaming apps, online games or facebook games"
SadHeroXIII said:
I'm sure this is cased by one of your apps !
cheak it all, especially the free ones " streaming apps, online games or facebook games"
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I checked all the apps even using the airpush detector applications but nothing includes on them. This airpush ads just start popups two days a go and floating in all the phone apps even when I try to make call it popups out.
shingir said:
I checked all the apps even using the airpush detector applications but nothing includes on them. This airpush ads just start popups two days a go and floating in all the phone apps even when I try to make call it popups out.
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try to use AdFree, don't have the link right now, so u need to search about it!
shingir said:
Dear All, I don't know exactly why an airpush ads start popup in my galaxy not 2 (android 4.3) when I open any application even the system ones.
see the attached pics>
Would you please help in this issue
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If your rooted any ad blocker will work I use ad away. I'll PM you a copy
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Airpush ad opt out
Hi Shingir,
My name is Nick and I am part of the publisher solutions team at Airpush.
To remove our ads, you can manually opt out at airpush.com/optout/, or you can always remove the app that the ads came from.
PM me if you need any more help.
Thanks,
Airpush Nick
shingir said:
Dear All, I don't know exactly why an airpush ads start popup in my galaxy not 2 (android 4.3) when I open any application even the system ones.
see the attached pics>
Would you please help in this issue
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shingir said:
Dear All, I don't know exactly why an airpush ads start popup in my galaxy not 2 (android 4.3) when I open any application even the system ones.
see the attached pics>
Would you please help in this issue
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this is due to any app and if you are rooted then try "lucky patcher" this app is realy good to remove ads from most of the apps (if you need that app, or just delete the app )
get it from here
http://lucky-patcher.netbew.com/
I am rooted on a pixel 2 XL with magisk v14 and manager 5.4.3. I have twrp 3.1.1 beta 2. I have changed the calling preference on the phone to wifi with an ADB command. Aside from that no other mods come to mind.
I have multiple functioning apps on my phone and am loving root. However, Facebook, Tumblr, Microsoft word, and Microsoft Excel give me messages saying they can't connect to the internet when I open them. This renders Facebook and Tumblr useless. The office programs can work locally. I tried hiding root from Facebook in magisk to no avail. What's going on with these apps? Do I need to change something on my phone or in it's system? Could any particular root apps like adaway be causing this?
Ok, so I was at least smart enough to be able to determine that adaway is not allowing every single one of the apps I mentioned to connect to the internet.
What's the solution here? Is adaway obsolete in 2017? Is the answer to just go download and buy adguard from the playstore?
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Ok, so I was at least smart enough to be able to determine that adaway is not allowing every single one of the apps I mentioned to connect to the internet.
What's the solution here? Is adaway obsolete in 2017? Is the answer to just go download and buy adguard from the playstore?
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Adaway is definitely not obsolete. It was removed from the Play Store and will never come back there. There is a thread here on XDA with updates, lots of good help, (and the same questions asked over and over). :good:
Adaway blocks urls / websites but not apps, so you have something else going on. Here is the tutorial to find blocked sites that need to be whitelisted, You can try it.
https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway/wiki/LogDNS
This was tremendously helpful. It did exactly what I wanted. Thank u. Hopefully others see this and it helps them too.
Schroeder09 said:
This was tremendously helpful. It did exactly what I wanted. Thank u. Hopefully others see this and it helps them too.
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Hi, my setup is similar to yours (rooted, etc) and I've got Google Docs and Sheets thinking they're not connected to WiFi or data. How were you able to resolve your data issue?
MinimalistChris said:
Hi, my setup is similar to yours (rooted, etc) and I've got Google Docs and Sheets thinking they're not connected to WiFi or data. How were you able to resolve your data issue?
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I haven't focused on getting those working yet, but it seems that the word is working. Excel still gives me the connection error. Adaway was the culprit for facebook. I suspect it is for the microsoft office apps too. I just have to addressed them because I will not be using them heavily. If you have an adblocking app please follow the instructions in the link that Pkt_lnt posted. They're very straightforward and helpful. You need to basically turn ad-blocking off, put it in a "scanning mode", use the app you want to for a few minutes so the adblocking app sees it, then the adblocking app will pick up on host file sites that the app uses. You can add these to a "white list." The adblocking will no longer block the app. It's important to note that if other apps use the same host file that you have just whitelisted ads will appear in that app too. White listing a host file is universal and is not done on an in-app basis.
Thank you!