first time posting on the P6 forum (last had a P3).
previously, I used dns.adguard.com for the Private DNS setting. however, that was not blocking all of the ads from within some apps. it worked pretty well until then. Now, I downloaded blokada 5, and that successfully blocks almost all ads. the lone problem is that when connecting to a website, it often slows it down.
curious to see if anyone has a similar experience or recommend an alternative to dns.adguard.com.
thanks!
jco23 said:
first time posting on the P6 forum (last had a P3).
previously, I used dns.adguard.com for the Private DNS setting. however, that was not blocking all of the ads from within some apps. it worked pretty well until then. Now, I downloaded blokada 5, and that successfully blocks almost all ads. the lone problem is that when connecting to a website, it often slows it down.
curious to see if anyone has a similar experience or recommend an alternative to dns.adguard.com.
thanks!
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I personally use both NordVPN as well as AdAway with root; AdAway has a VPN function of its own, and you can use your own host lists, but the VPN solution is more resource intensive than the root solution.
V0latyle said:
I personally use both NordVPN as well as AdAway with root; AdAway has a VPN function of its own, and you can use your own host lists, but the VPN solution is more resource intensive than the root solution.
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interesting - thanks for the quick reply.
i do have windscribe, but rarely use it. i have not rooted this device yet, as my understanding rooting will disable Google Wallet/GPay - and I use those more often than I would need to hide ads.
+1 to AdAway, plus if your preferred browser supports it, install an adblocker in it as well - I use uBlock for Firefox.
There's also MinMinGuard which has recently gotten an update to make it work on current systems, but that requires Lsposed if you don't already use it, as well as individually enabling it for every new app you install. Honestly, though, with AdAway plus a browser adblocker, I almost never see any ads in any app, so I don't find MinMinGuard necessary anymore.
Ad blocking apps like Blokada and DNS-based ad blockers like AdGuard can be effective at blocking ads, but they can also slow down your browsing experience. This is because ad blockers need to process and filter out ads, which can take up resources and cause delays.
One alternative to dns.adguard.com that you could try is Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1. This is a free, fast, and secure DNS resolver that also includes ad-blocking capabilities. Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 uses their own ad-blocking technology which is based on the same technology used by their enterprise-grade Web Application Firewall (WAF). This can block ads at the DNS level, which can be less resource-intensive than using an app like Blokada.
jco23 said:
interesting - thanks for the quick reply.
i do have windscribe, but rarely use it. i have not rooted this device yet, as my understanding rooting will disable Google Wallet/GPay - and I use those more often than I would need to hide ads.
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No root will not disable Google Wallet/GPay, you just have to install Safety net fix module and all works great, for banking apps just hide root into settings. I use all my banking apps, card tokens and gpay/wallet everyday. Rooking root + adaway.
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Ad blocking apps like Blokada and DNS-based ad blockers like AdGuard can be effective at blocking ads, but they can also slow down your browsing experience. This is because ad blockers need to process and filter out ads, which can take up resources and cause delays.
One alternative to dns.adguard.com that you could try is Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1. This is a free, fast, and secure DNS resolver that also includes ad-blocking capabilities. Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 uses their own ad-blocking technology which is based on the same technology used by their enterprise-grade Web Application Firewall (WAF). This can block ads at the DNS level, which can be less resource-intensive than using an app like Blokada.
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i tried installing the 1.1.1.1 app from cloudflare, and it did NOT block the ads on my scrabble app. thx for the suggestion though.
Have you tried using a browser like Brave which would help with your browsing experience. I use a combination of Blockada for system wide blocking, pihole for in-home network based blocking and browsers like Brave/DDG for blocking and so on. I have a tasker based activity for turning on/off blockada when in home/out of home. It's my non-root solution.
Additionally you can also lookup -
ahadns.com - you get a customised secure dns url, you can setup filter lists and the URL is configured based on the seelctions.
nextdns.io - something similar to the above. 300,000 free ad-blocking queries per month and past that, the non-blocking DNS service will work till the next month.
cbarai said:
Have you tried using a browser like Brave which would help with your browsing experience. I use a combination of Blockada for system wide blocking, pihole for in-home network based blocking and browsers like Brave/DDG for blocking and so on. I have a tasker based activity for turning on/off blockada when in home/out of home. It's my non-root solution.
Additionally you can also lookup -
ahadns.com - you get a customised secure dns url, you can setup filter lists and the URL is configured based on the seelctions.
nextdns.io - something similar to the above. 300,000 free ad-blocking queries per month and past that, the non-blocking DNS service will work till the next month.
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Hey, just stumbled across your post and thought that if you use piehole at home, you should be able to just use a VPN to you piehole when on the road so you don't have to rely on third party apps. Don't know about performance though, but you might give it a try.
Cheers
Been taking NextDNS for a test ride. Easy set up with a lot of features, up to 300,000 queries per month for free. What's not to like?
Fast and running pretty smooth so far, day 7.
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my problem is that i have a non rooted phone with vpn always on and im searching for an app to activating ad block on it.
My fix for it would be to use an android wide proxy or a custom dns that overrides vpn dns.
as title said an root app or an app that provides vpn solution wouldnt be what im searching for. I had once an adblock app that routes traffic trough local proxy beside the vpn but cant find it anymore
Update: i found AdHell but its only for Samsung Devices with knox. Any other solutions?
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Update: i found AdHell but its only for Samsung Devices with knox. Any other solutions?
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any news on this one?
I wanna use protonVPN and adblcoker at same time
a bit of elbow grease to protect self from Privacy Raping
Some [open]vpn clients allow vpn side connection to Socks5. Some even allow toggle of LAN access from device. I am not claiming a finish product exists but perhaps this gives you some joy.
Perhaps your socks5 instance runs in Amazon AWS free tier. Maybe it runs locally on your android handset. Perhaps you run Privoxy itself on android. [@mod: privoxy is F/OSS older than this forum]. There are a few privoxy projects for android on github. Perhaps you pick their brain. It was that against which proxomitron competed [also F/OSS. Thank God for Scott Lemmon].
Using things in differing order you might search the article to which I may not link: Privoxy on Android (with EC2 VPN)
I wanted to bring the Amazon EC2-based Privoxy service to it, by way of a VPN.
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There was no obvious way to contact the author who hasn't posted since 2016.
There is an OpenVPN service you can likely find the name of yourself offering *recently* an adblock toggle and AntiTracker toggle with a hardcode mode to protect you from predators like google and Fbook. It shouldn't be long before others emulate this functionality. It sports the vpn side socks5 option.
Or privoxy tunnel to remote [cloud (openvpn)]. See? Fun with permutations. Maybe from phone with ShadowSocks to cloud to vpn to web. "OpenVPN over shadowsocks". At this point look into sites helping Chinese dissidents.
You definitely then return here with your improvements to share.
The remaining question is how much is your time worth? Not much? Then search the web ad naseum for the 'ideal free' solution. Elsewise pony up some pennies for some cloud time as part of a solution.
Same question here !
And it seems that adhell is now only available for entreprise use
Wasn't AdGuard doing that?
yes you are right. it works with setting a private dns in the system settings with dns.adguard.com - no batterydrain - no more ads - no vpn - no root
Hi
At them moment I'm rooting my device only to use adaway. Do you think the afford to root a device is worth the benefits of adaway especially as there are some other good vpn based Adblockers? I did some researches and found out that the impact on the performance and battery is minimal.
The only reason I hesitate is that I'm using a VPN for public wifis. But on the other hand every connection my Smartphone opens should be encrypted anyway (hopefully) so I maybe can live without that.
So can you give me an advice? What would you do?
I would say: YES!
Reason: I f you use a VPN, in the data summary everything is collected into that VPN. And you are flexible. In my view Adaway is a cleaner solution. I also need a firewall like AF+ Wall. And tasker for improving my battery life. You see, I like the opportunities.
No, you can use Netguard (not from Play Store) and with it you can download/import the host file you want. That's what Adaway does, and Netguard doesn't need root. And take a look to all the feature u have with Netguard itself. It's awesome
One of the best (and IMO the best) android adblocker is AdClear, it works efficiently and it doesn't need root. Using it for years. It works very well when it comes to blocking ads. And, it's free.
Hello there,
it seems that on the S9+ (and maybe S9, tho users over there report everything is fine) all the VPN-based ad blockers like DNS66, Blokada and the likes do not work correctly. When switching between wifi and mobile, the connection randomly dies, not letting anything through anymore until you restart the phone, or disable the blocker. It is documented in a github issue for DNS66 here. This is annoying, as I found this solution the most user-friendly. I know there is Adhell 3, but a) it's annoying to resign and reinstall every 3 months and apply for new keys and b) it doesn't block everything, not even if I manually feed it with all the hosts files that DNS66 uses. It blocks ads alright, but misses quite some.
Is there any known fix for this, or any other adblock suggestion besides that? I know that rooting and adaway would be best, but I won't root anymore since Samsung here in Europe straight off denies any warranty requests for rooted devices, even if it's got nothing to do with the root itself.
Adguard would a suggestion, but it does use a VPN blocking service for system wide blocking. It's not free and is subscription based. At one time I used adguard over dns66 as adguard worked and dns66 did not (VPN issues with dns66).
For non rooted users there is really no other options. Unless you want to setup a pihole server, somehow get your dns setting on your phone to point to the pihole server and go that route. In the case of dns changes on non-rooted devices it's either a VPN based change or knox. So your options are limited to one or the other. Of course this becomes moot if your plan on only blocking ads when you use a wifi connection.
I've done the pihole route before too, it works but doesn't catch everything. Some ads originate from the same domain as where your visiting, in which case dns adblocking won't work. For those scenarios cosmetic filtering would.
Otherwise I use adhell3 and adblock plus plugin on samsung browser. For practical intents and purposes I steered clear of VPN based setups for a reason. Also I don't mind recompilimg adhell3 once in a while, he's really put a lot of work into making it as simple as possible. I've got my android studio setup so that I just pull the latest changes, build the apk and install.
If adhell3 isn't your cup of tea then the only app I know is Disconnect Pro which costs $24.99 in the galaxy app store. Disconnect Pro functions the same way as Adhell3 does.. as a front end configuration for knox. I've read somewhere that Adhell3 has more features then Disconnect Pro, but I didn't look to much into that to find out what one has over the other.
If I were to suggest something I would suggest adhell3 combined with adblock plus plugin for your browser. combined those work the best for me... some ads might slip through, but dns based ad blocking is not the same as cosmetic ad blocking. Adguard should still do cosmetic filtering, but it's been a while since I used that app.
I am use this one on my S9+, it's free and work fine.
https://block-this.com/
I am searching for options how to block android in-app trackers.
Which trackers are used in specific app can be checked here: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
For example:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.nordvpn.android/latest/
App NordVPN uses 5 trackers (Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager,...).
How is it possible to block these trackers on Android 9? In a browser with add-ons like uBlock Origin it is an easy job. Is it possible to do the same with Android applications?
- I was looking at adblocking apps like AdAway, which uses hosts file... Can I use this host file to block trackers used in apps?
- I was also looking at XprivacyLua, but it needs Xposed framewors, which does not work (yet) on Android 9.
- Do you know any other tool?
- Or is the only option to find alternative?
Using: Mido device, LineageOS 16 for MicroG (based on Android 9 Pie).
Thank you for help and greetings!
If someone else needs it, I got a lot of help in this AdAway thread, page 1413, 1414: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2190753&page=1413
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For any app that makes the call by DNS, yes. If an app has an IP hard coded or other DNS work around, no.
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So one option seems to be just adding domains to AdAway blocklist.
To do so:
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As pointed by the other user, you didn't list FQDNs but package names - with AdAway you cannot blacklist/whitelist some apps, only FQDNs (domains)
For AdAway you must have root, hence you can check from the logcat which domains were resolved by DNS and which TCP connections were established while your app is running.
Then add suspicious domains to your AdAway blacklist, restart the phone and test again, and analyze the log again if you still see the ads
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Nobody needs an AD-Blocker app: all one has to do is to keep Android's system file /system/etc/hosts up-to-date. To edit this file root access is required.
Check out https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...pt-disable-fk-services-trackers-apps-t4074427
As you all know, porn sites are a notorious haven of malvertising as it's suspected companies like MindGeek profiter off the crap at the expense of the userbase, and their ****ty apps are literal adware as THEY USE THE EXACT SAME ADVERTISING SYSTEMS.
As a solution, I was wondering if someone could make ad free versions of these apps like the ones pornhub and xvideos use, in order to protect users from this ****ing garbage, or at the very least suggest something that is safe that browses these ****ty sites and fetches content WITHOUT LOADING ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE VIDEO FILE ITSELF.
These companies do not deserve the ad revenue anyway, considering the scandals with mindgeek involving trafficker materials and cp, the suspected profiteering off malvertising, and the fact that mindgeek was caught promoting and defending terrorist ideologies and conspiracy theories.
NOTE TO MODS: I INTEND FOR THIS THREAD TO FULLY COMPLY WITH THE SITE RULES AS I AM NOT REQUESTING PORNOGRAPHY AND EXPECT ANY PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT FROM SCREENSHOTS TO BE COMPLETELY CENSORED, the indirect political reference is just an example of mindgeek's ****ty behavior.
Ad Blocker for Android by AdGuard for rooted and unrooted devices | AdGuard
AdGuard is a unique adblock tool that blocks ads in apps and browsers, protects your privacy, and helps manage your apps.
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adguard works wonders <3
Using Kiwi Browser + uBlock extension (+ other privacy extensions as necessary) would accomplish most of what you want.
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Ad Blocker for Android by AdGuard for rooted and unrooted devices | AdGuard
AdGuard is a unique adblock tool that blocks ads in apps and browsers, protects your privacy, and helps manage your apps.
adguard.com
adguard works wonders <3
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I should note I want an app because it would be more secure by virtue of not fetching any html.
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I should note I want an app because it would be more secure by virtue of not fetching any html.
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adguard has what you need and much more. https filtering etc. helps speedup your device by automatically filtering out millions of trash sites and works in apps too not just browser. they been around a long time.
jenneh said:
adguard has what you need and much more. https filtering etc. helps speedup your device by automatically filtering out millions of trash sites and works in apps too not just browser. they been around a long time.
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Adguard requires premium for adblocking, what I am looking for is a way to safely fetch content from the site without loading html.