Now that ad blockers have been removed from Play, are there any good alternatives?
UPDATE: I have found an alternative for AdFree Android. I am now using AdAway thanks to F-Droid and I have found I like it much better. Thank you to all who assisted in giving answers.
Uh.. You can still use adblockers legally you just have to download them from the devs website instead of the play store.
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What adblockers were removed? The Air Push ads?
All of them I think...
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thecapitalr said:
Uh.. You can still use adblockers legally you just have to download them from the devs website instead of the play store.
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I know. Looking for adfree android as it is currently my favorite. Bigtincan website does not offer it that I could find.
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http://dl.papktop.com/2013/01/AdFree_Android_0_8_47.apk
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/38127313/org.adaway-1.apk
Get it while it's still there.
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Anyone know what pushed that move?
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http://dl.papktop.com/2013/01/AdFree_Android_0_8_47.apk
Get it while it's still there.
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Thanks. Got it.
CrackerTeg said:
Anyone know what pushed that move?
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Ad blockers are a violation of Google Play's TOS is all I have found out.
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Anyone know what pushed that move?
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This may answer your question.
http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/google-removes-all-ad-blocking-apps-from-play-store
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Interesting.
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This may answer your question.
http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/google-removes-all-ad-blocking-apps-from-play-store
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Yep...a quick search now lands the same info over and over. It also lands a lot of speculation in which direction google is heading.
Just to clarify, I will state that I am not necessarily against ads as it helps independent developers. If I like the app enough i will support the developer if they will allow for a purchase that is ad free. I have purchased around 20 or so apps (some I no longer use) so I have no qualms doing this. However, I have experienced some apps in which the ads are overly instrusive and actually hinder some of the functions of the app temporarily due to being in the way. These "few" are the reason I have resorted to ad blockers.
For now I have installed F-Droid and I am using AdAway and I like it a lot. I am now content.
I've been using AdAway too but the last app update (March 7th I believe) actually allows ads. Are you having this problem as well?
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nursemm05 said:
I've been using AdAway too but the last app update (March 7th I believe) actually allows ads. Are you having this problem as well?
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I have had no such issue. Still blocking ads. In fact AdAway is working even better than AdFree Android did. There were a couple of apps that I still got ads in before and now they are even ad free.
Are ads coming through all of your apps that support ads, or just some of them? If all ad supported software is showing ads then you need to update your hosts file via AdAway.
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I have had no such issue. Still blocking ads. In fact AdAway is working even better than AdFree Android did. There were a couple of apps that I still got ads in before and now they are even ad free.
Are ads coming through all of your apps that support ads, or just some of them? If all ad supported software is showing ads then you need to update your hosts file via AdAway.
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I updated the hosts file beginning of March and then started getting ads. Before that I was getting none. Today they updated the hosts files again and ads are once again gone. yay!
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I had to reset my phone and since then i am not been able to download the app. Does anyone having the same issue?
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vikramdhani said:
I had to reset my phone and since then i am not been able to download the app. Does anyone having the same issue?
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Yes, Whatsapp removed their app from the marketplace for an unknown reason. It should return soon.
Oh okie now it make sense the app is not there in the marketplace for some unknown reason and no bloggers have covered this surprisingly or may be that tells no one is using wp7 these days
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Oh okie now it make sense the app is not there in the marketplace for some unknown reason and no bloggers have covered this surprisingly or may be that tells no one is using wp7 these days
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It was covered. The blogs said it was pulled for security issues... I think that's a load of crap. Everyone who cares about that stuff knows whatsapp uses regular HTTP on all platforms, and whatsapp wasn't pulled on iOS/Android.
So it was something else, maybe moving to the paid version with a resubmit so those who already downloaded have to buy it.
I installed the new root66 JB and it seems that ad-free android doesn't actually block ads anymore. It says my host file is up to date, and and I restarted but I still get ads in places that I didn't get before the update. Xda, Pandora, ect. Is anyone else having this problem?
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You have to check the symlink if needed button and run it and it should work
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Mine still works fine
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Try adaway. Been using it forever and never had any issues.
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Try updating hosts and then clear cache
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You have to check the symlink if needed button and run it and it should work
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That fixed it. Thanks.
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I just had to go and find Ad Free again and install it. Cannot find it on google anymore, had to use dogpile. This app just disappeared from my tablet, I think google playstore had something to do with that. Now that it is reinstalled and working, is there anyway to protect this app from google trying to purge it again? Like with Titanium Backup or something? Thanks.
Google didn't purge it. Well they did, but only from their store.
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I installed the new root66 JB and it seems that ad-free android doesn't actually block ads anymore. It says my host file is up to date, and and I restarted but I still get ads in places that I didn't get before the update. Xda, Pandora, ect. Is anyone else having this problem?
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Why not use what everyone else uses to remove ads, here is the link for "Adaway.apk" and it works just as well on JB or
any other versions of roms.
Here is the direct download link: http://www48.zippyshare.com/v/60362249/file.html
The play store no longer supports any add-blocking apps that's why you will not find it there.
Good Luck!
Pretty shocked, all of a sudden a million ads on most websites I go to.
I have been using adaway, and before that used to use adfree, but found adaway did a better job. Anyways, it was working bulletproof perfect until this weekend. Going to Chicago Tribune news site, and some tech forums, and ads were back. Top of screen banner, bottom of screen, floating ads. Ugh
I try to update adaway today, it said something strange, never seen before, something about my APN settings in mobile network. "APN Proxy Set", won't enable adaway fully. WTF is that ?
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Try the airpush detector app from the play store. More than likely an app you download is causing it. Hope this helps
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Thanks, tried that, said no bad ads installed.
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Adblock plus with Root. Kills the garbage.
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I am using adfree to block ads it does block some ads but not all the ads . What needs to be done to block all the ads in any app.
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You talking about app ads or internet ads or both ?
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Talking about app ads and internet ads also
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The way AdFree works is it has a list of web addresses and domains that are commonly believed to be ad servers or dangerous sites...
If an ad is served from an address not in that list, it will not be blocked. Since New ads and ad servers are always popping up, no list wool eff be 100% complete.
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Can Alfred be configured to block ads from specific app
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smartguy10 said:
Can Alfred be configured to block ads from specific app
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Nope, he just explained how it works and specific apps blacklist isnt how it works
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Nope, he just explained how it works and specific apps blacklist isnt how it works
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I used to play a sudoku game that kept throwing up ads. I realized that it never needed to connect to the internet (only reason it had the permission was to retrieve the ads). So I just used DroidWall to block internet access to that app, and it disabled ads.
This method obviously wouldn't work with apps like Hulu, since it needs internet to function. But it's an option for those few apps (think of Hill Climb Racing) that don't really require internet.
Hope this helps.
Ok so I recently updated to a leaked 4.3 build and I'm really missing my adaway app. Is there a good ad blocking app yet for 4.3?
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Can you not just use a hosts file. Thats pretty much all the apps do anyway, isn't it?
AdAway doesn't work on 4.3? News to me.
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AdAway doesn't work on 4.3? News to me.
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Worked fine for me
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