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[Q] Ad Blocking

Can someone tell me why I still have ads on my apps?
I am rooted with one-click, installed Calkulin's rom 2.9.2 and went ahead and installed Adfree to see if it would help. Still have ads.
Never had a problem with the rooting or flashing the rom. I have also tried several modems trying to find the best for my phone. I currently have FC18 installed and it seems to be the best so far, Sat. lock is almost instant.
Thanks in advance,
Rick

OP where are you seeing the ads?

Did you run adfree and rebooted your phone ?

I'm on blazer and see ads in tweetcaster. That's the only one as far as I can tell

go to the settings in Addfree.

Ja5oN said:
OP where are you seeing the ads?
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Solitaire, Ceramic Destroyer, Angry Birds, etc.

NeoWave said:
Did you run adfree and rebooted your phone ?
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Yes, sometimes this works the first time I run app, but the next time the ads return.

RicRat said:
Yes, sometimes this works the first time I run app, but the next time the ads return.
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Rom toolbox works for me... there is a great ad blocking feature in it and works better than adfree
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Rom toolbox works for me... there is a great ad blocking feature in it and works better than adfree
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Add free works best while app with adds is running, hit home button, open add free, run add free, you should get a conf. No add present, do this while on wi-fi .
Works for me every time.
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Tried adfree, adaway and rom toolbox.
Still get ads on some apps.
Oh well, they are free apps so can't really complain.
Edit: I found another post on another forum and it stated if the host file shows a bunch of IP addresses as "127.0.0.1", then it didn't work. Anybody know how to fix this?

Same here its only w ics
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RicRat said:
Tried adfree, adaway and rom toolbox.
Still get ads on some apps.
Oh well, they are free apps so can't really complain.
Edit: I found another post on another forum and it stated if the host file shows a bunch of IP addresses as "127.0.0.1", then it didn't work. Anybody know how to fix this?
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Odd...that is precisely the core of the ad-block... basically any address that points to that, say ad.doubleclick.net gets redirected internally to the loop address, i.e. it wont be able to load the ad since its being blocked. It could be that the application is getting the ad from somewhere else. Try droid wall.

[Q] adaway app not fully loading Amazon website/app

i have a rooted xperia play and have used the adaway ad blocker app for a couple of years with no problems
but suddenly I cannot access fully the amazon (shopping) app or internet version , I can browse amazon etc
but it will not load up any of the images for the products, if I disable ad blocking on adaway it works fine but as soon
as I enable the ad blocking it no longer loads up any of the amazon photos, can anyone out there please help
thanks

I added "*images-amazon*" to the whitelist and they load up again now. (Not got an xperia play myself, but this thread came up in a search before I had a go at a fixing it on my own)

excellent. works a treat. thanks

kevo said:
I added "*images-amazon*" to the whitelist and they load up again now. (Not got an xperia play myself, but this thread came up in a search before I had a go at a fixing it on my own)
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Worked a treat. Thanks.

kevo said:
I added "*images-amazon*" to the whitelist and they load up again now. (Not got an xperia play myself, but this thread came up in a search before I had a go at a fixing it on my own)
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How do you add things to white list in adaway?
Edit: nevermind, I figured it out. Thanks for your post.

stoneyholme said:
excellent. works a treat. thanks
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Many thanks for this quick fix! I suspected this was the case(nexus 5), and a quick google brought me to your post. No time wasted due to you.

Thanks this worked. I don't have a Xperia device. I have a Note 3. I searched Google for this issue and this page came up. I've had this problem before and later Adaway hosts updates fixed it, hopefully this fix will be permanent.

Excellent. I had the same problem on my s3. Updating adaway solved it

[Q] Removing YouTube Ads?

Anyone get YouTube Module iYTBP for Magisk to work? I've never used this particular method before. I manually downloaded the latest ARM64 variant and tried the ones listed in Magisk downloads as well . I'm not sure if its just broken for our device at the moment or I'm doing something wrong. If some has another method for removing YouTube ads you be appreciated. Thanks

Try Youtube RED hahaha

Couple ways. YouTube Red of course which is what I use now. But I used to use pi-hole on my home network

Yea, their ads are getting out of hand.

Root it, then use an aggressive HOSTS file. This one is not bad http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Remember to convert the format of the hosts to Unix. In Notepadd++ that is EDIT --> EOL Conversion --> UNIX
If rooting is too much, go with a DNS blackhole. Raspberry Pi Hole is the easiest.
Or you can setup DNS on a Windows Server, then import the domains from the hosts file using this: https://cyber-defense.sans.org/blog/2010/08/31/windows-dns-server-blackhole-blacklist
Another benefit of a DNS server is that you can log all the DNS lookup requests from your Pixel 2, iPad, Smart TV, etc. Then block the **** out of them.

JeffBea said:
Anyone get YouTube Module iYTBP for Magisk to work? I've never used this particular method before. I manually downloaded the latest ARM64 variant and tried the ones listed in Magisk downloads as well . I'm not sure if its just broken for our device at the moment or I'm doing something wrong. If some has another method for removing YouTube ads you be appreciated. Thanks
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I'm using it and it works perfectly. Did you follow the instructions in the thread?

ilal2ielli said:
I'm using it and it works perfectly. Did you follow the instructions in the thread?
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I thought I did. I disabled YouTube and then tried to install module in Magisk, but it failed to install. Maybe I wasn't reading the right thread.

JeffBea said:
I thought I did. I disabled YouTube and then tried to install module in Magisk, but it failed to install. Maybe I wasn't reading the right thread.
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I was having issues too. What worked for me was uninstalling updates for YouTube, and when it prompted to return the app to the stock one that came with the phone, I said yes and it finally worked.

The best adfree solution to YouTube IMO is this:
https://www.official-plus.com/ogyoutube
Not only do you get YouTube adfree - you can do picture in picture without YouTube red AND you get an extra button to download the video in mp4 or just the audio in mp3 if you wanted to! AND ROOT NOT NEEDED! 1st install MicroG APK, then install OGyoutube APK, give permissions, and done lol.
Best YouTube experience yet. Please give this a try, you will forget all about the YouTube adaway module.
BTW, I'm on Oreo 8.1 developer preview 1, unrooted, locked bootloader, stock recovery and still works great. Has extra settings and options not originally in stock YouTube too. And they're all handy =-)
P.S. I been using this for YouTube all week (just got my pixel 2 xl) and haven't seen a single ad yet.

Honestly, pay for it or deal with it. A lot of these creators spend hours and hours creating content for you to enjoy. Those ads pay for that time. And not nearly enough I might add. It's 5 to 20 seconds of your life or 10 bucks a month.

Guys, I live in Russia, so there's no way to legally use YouTube Red. Here's what I did:
1. Rooted with Magisk.
2. Removed system app YouTube.apk.
3. Downloaded modified YouTube iYTBP and put it into the system folder.
Magic! Everything works fine including picture-in-picture mode. No ads!

JeffBea said:
Anyone get YouTube Module iYTBP for Magisk to work? I've never used this particular method before. I manually downloaded the latest ARM64 variant and tried the ones listed in Magisk downloads as well . I'm not sure if its just broken for our device at the moment or I'm doing something wrong. If some has another method for removing YouTube ads you be appreciated. Thanks
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Just use they're non root version and install apk and everything is fine. Doesn't matter if you're rooted or not.

zathus said:
Honestly, pay for it or deal with it. A lot of these creators spend hours and hours creating content for you to enjoy. Those ads pay for that time. And not nearly enough I might add. It's 5 to 20 seconds of your life or 10 bucks a month.
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Now the wall of "it's not supported in my country" and other excuses will come.
This is what society is now. Would rather rip everyone off to save themselves a 40 second ad

soapbox23 said:
I was having issues too. What worked for me was uninstalling updates for YouTube, and when it prompted to return the app to the stock one that came with the phone, I said yes and it finally worked.
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Got it working, thanks for the tip.

Lawlrus said:
Now the wall of "it's not supported in my country" and other excuses will come.
This is what society is now. Would rather rip everyone off to save themselves a 40 second ad
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Lol well it's a valid point. I live in Canada and pay for Google play music, which comes bundled with YouTube red for those in the States. Why should I pay the same amount of money to get less features than someone in the States?

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Lol well it's a valid point. I live in Canada and pay for Google play music, which comes bundled with YouTube red for those in the States. Why should I pay the same amount of money to get less features than someone in the States?
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Because that's the way life is some times? Move to America so you can save $15 a month. See if it's worth it lol

Taebom said:
Just use they're non root version and install apk and everything is fine. Doesn't matter if you're rooted or not.
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Would you mind sending a link to the correct APK version to me for the Pixel 2 XL? I'm rooted with Magisk if that matters. I looked on their download site and there are like upwards of 8 files for just about every version of the APK.

How to block ads?

How are you guys blocking ads?
I've been using adaway for years and it's been great until recently.
Now I still get tons of ads on xda-developers.com while just browsing.
I've updated the hosts file and even added a few more sources, restarted the phone, still ads.
Any recommendations on better hosts sources or anything?

I use adguard. I think it's the best for rooted and non-rooted phones.

AdAway works fine for me, but I also use AdGuard in conjunction, so I don't know which app is blocking which ads.
Once my AdGuard subscription ends, I'm going to continue using just AdAway and see if it does the same job as AdGuard. If it does, I may as well save some money and not renew my AdGuard subscription lol.

I always use Adaway and currently working fine. Are you on the latest version 3.3?

Unified Hosts Manager and its magisk module.

galaxys said:
I always use Adaway and currently working fine. Are you on the latest version 3.3?
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Just checked and I'm on 3.2.
It usually says there's an update, so that's weird. I'll try updating to 3.3 and see if that fixes it.
Nope, updated, rebooted, still ads on xda.
Guess I'll have to try another adblocker.

I use adguard, stock.

I've had great luck with DNS66 since I'm not rooted.

I love AdGuard. It works fine and I never see ads. I pay for Google play music do I get YouTube red with it. So ads are a thing of the past for me. I'm also stock and unrooted. It works well either way. 25 for a lifetime license for one computer and a device is a good deal for me. I think it's worth it.

Adaway, works perfect

Interesting. Not sure why I have problems with adaway lately, but oh well. I disabled adaway and installed unified hosts via magisk. Back to no ads again on xda.
I like adguard, though, so I'll probably get that for the wife since she doesn't have root.
Thanks for the help, guys!

Well, nevermind.
Somehow ads are back and worse than ever. There's an ad after every few threads in the 2 XL forums.
I have the unified hosts module in magisk right now.
I was going to try adguard but it wants me to download a new browser, which I don't want, so it won't continue with setup.
Not sure why suddenly this thing can't block ads when it was fine on the March update.
Edit: just uninstalled the magisk module, installed adaway again, rebooted and it seems to be working.....for now...
Edit 2: nevermind. Went back to the xda home page and ads are back.

I've never had the experience of AdGuard telling me to install a different browser. I do use chrome. If you use something different just use chrome for a second to download it, then go back to your old browser. Unless your adons for adaway are interfering with it somehow. ?

If you browse the forums a lot, why not use the XDA app or Tapatalk? No ads with either.
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I've never had the experience of AdGuard telling me to install a different browser. I do use chrome. If you use something different just use chrome for a second to download it, then go back to your old browser. Unless your adons for adaway are interfering with it somehow. [emoji848]
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In Adguard's description it specifically says Yandex browser and Samsung Internet browser only. Unless you're using a different Adguard.
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EeZeEpEe said:
If you browse the forums a lot, why not use the XDA app or Tapatalk? No ads with either.
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In Adguard's description it specifically says Yandex browser and Samsung Internet browser only. Unless you're using a different Adguard.
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I'm actually using the AdGuard application that was downloaded from their website. It's not a browser extension. It's an actual application that routes all traffic through it to filter out ads. It works on any browser, application that I've used before.

MacTheRipperr said:
I'm actually using the AdGuard application that was downloaded from their website. It's not a browser extension. It's an actual application that routes all traffic through it to filter out ads. It works on any browser, application that I've used before.
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Ah that makes sense as non-browser Adblocks aren't on the Play Store. You paying for the monthly or did the lifetime premium?
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E30Nova said:
Well, nevermind.
Somehow ads are back and worse than ever. There's an ad after every few threads in the 2 XL forums.
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I'm actually using the AdGuard application that was downloaded from their website. It's not a browser extension. It's an actual application that routes all traffic through it to filter out ads. It works on any browser, application that I've used before.
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I have been using the AdGuard app and it works very well. But lately I am seeing ads on xda front page articles. Manually updating AdGuard filters does not help. Those ads are probably on a server that has not been added to AdGuard filters (yet). I could manually add the server to my hosts file, but I am too lazy.

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Ah that makes sense as non-browser Adblocks aren't on the Play Store. You paying for the monthly or did the lifetime premium?
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The lifetime is completely worth it. Plus those guys are transparent about all of their work and how the app works. I trust them.

E30Nova said:
Just checked and I'm on 3.2.
It usually says there's an update, so that's weird. I'll try updating to 3.3 and see if that fixes it.
Nope, updated, rebooted, still ads on xda.
Guess I'll have to try another adblocker.
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Clear your cache in Chrome, because if you've already gotten some ads prior to installing AdAway, those ads will still appear even after AdAway is installed, unless you clear your cache. For the record, no ads here, but I also use an expanded list of hosts sources, which I will provide a bit later.
EDIT: Here is that list.
Code:
http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts-file
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
https://isc.sans.edu/feeds/suspiciousdomains_High.txt
https://mirror.cedia.org.ec/malwaredomains/justdomains
https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext
https://ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch/downloads/RW_DOMBL.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists_disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists_disconnect.me/simple_malware.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists_disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist

Do you have data saver turned on in chrome settings? Data saver is Google compressing a full webpage, with ads, to reduce mobile data usage.

Ad blocking app that works with Q ?

For years I used AdClear, which did the job perfectly; all ads were removed in-browser and in-apps. I'm on android Q Beta, and it doesn't block ads anymore. I tried Adguard, but that doesn't block ads on Q either. I am not rooted. Have you got any suggestions for an ad blocking app that works with Q, no root? Not just browser but apps as well? Thanks!

adguard.com works fine for me, take a user filter from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/magisk-unified-hosts-adblocker-t3559019

I would try the DNS version of AdGuard rather than the app.

TonikJDK said:
I would try the DNS version of AdGuard rather than the app.
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Thanks , I had a look but this only works for WIFI networks...

So is it just me who has no luck with AdGuard on Android Q Beta? I've had it for a few days and I get "blocked ads: 0".

DNS666 is working just fine for me. But I also have chrome beta and had to disable async DNS in chrome://flags to get the ads blocked.

Blokada works.

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So is it just me who has no luck with AdGuard on Android Q Beta? I've had it for a few days and I get "blocked ads: 0".
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What version of AdGuard are you using? Version 3 beta should work. If not you can ask in their forums for help.
https://adguard.com/en/blog/android-q-beta/
https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html
https://forum.adguard.com/index.php

nds850 said:
Blokada works.
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Thanks guys, Blokada works out of the box. Relief!

Q n adguard working for me
StrangerWeather said:
So is it just me who has no luck with AdGuard on Android Q Beta? I've had it for a few days and I get "blocked ads: 0".
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For browser use brave browser, I am also on Q beta and that is what I am using, it works great. As far as in app ads I don't have that problem as I have bought all my apps.

Blokada for the win! Config to cloudfair, too [emoji16]
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Hi, just come across this app bit it doesn't seem to block what look like Google ads on XDA and The Guardian (for example)
I've tried various configs without joy.
I'm on beta 3 btw
Anyone got any tips for how I can get this sorted please?
Thanks in advance

PugRallye said:
Hi, just come across this app bit it doesn't seem to block what look like Google ads on XDA and The Guardian (for example)
I've tried various configs without joy.
I'm on beta 3 btw
Anyone got any tips for how I can get this sorted please?
Thanks in advance
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Hi, I wasn't satisfied with Blokada in the end. I am now using Adlock which I found on XDA labs, and I find it excellent. There is a trial period after which it is not free anymore, but not very expensive either. May be it can help? Also, for XDA, if you use the full version of XDA Labs (which is free), there are no ads.

Thanks for the tip about Adlock, I'll have a look at that.
It works with beta 3 and blocks everything does it?
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Looks like Alock is blocking the ads here and on The Guardian that the other ad-blockers weren't.
I'll see how I get in with it over the next couple of weeks and will buy it if it works well.
Thanks again for the suggestion...