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[Android Apps and Games] Wolfcity:
I'm with you regarding the "half in half" buttons. I have to say that I'm using the dark variant and

for me the light theme looks worse, it's more difficult to identify the functions.

On the other hand Adaway is an app where you don't spend to much time, set your options and that's it.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
I cannot tell weather or not you are joking but that does not address either of the 2 specific concerns I mentioned and it also leaves all buttons floating in a common background which might be even worse than before. I was thinking of something like this sloppy mock-up but also with the icons within each button.

View attachment 5050429

Disclaimer: Since this is not glaring a functional limitation I don"t consider it a "problem" but I do think that some changes would benefit the app.
[Android Apps and Games] djdelarosa25:
Yeah, the half in, half out icons don't look natural imho. I reported this as a bug on Github back then but didn't realize it was by design.
[Android Apps and Games] JudgeDread11:
If the biggest problem people are complaining about for the last 2 days is that the buttons does not look how your like them to look, then congrats to the developer. You did an awesome job!

To everybody moaning, maybe you should be thankful for what you get all for free.

Giving opinion and advice is great, but make sure it reads as such.

A single picture about an undefined issue and the whole discussion after that does not feel like constructive feedback.

And for those who actually follow this thread, constructive feedback about the UI had been given before.

Obvious the dev choose to work on functionality first.

If and what he will do with the UI after that is completely up to him.
[Android Apps and Games] djdelarosa25:
I don't recall anyone being unreasonable. From what I've read, everyone seems to be constructive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[Android Apps and Games] PoochyX:
Hey guys I got 2 questions what is the adaway websever I see in 5.0.5 it's enabled by default and what's the option of apply redirected hosts by source (security risk) are these 2 options useful

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[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
If something does not look good to some people they need not follow your sycophantic lead and just say it's great even if they don't think so. Feedback was provided in a thoughtful and respectful way. Also, although my detailed description and mock-up were provided too late in the game to be useful in this wave of development (even if they were agreeable to PerfectSlayer) they were presented in a reasonable and cogent manner.

Now you are simply misrepresenting the feedback that others provided which was clearly more than just a single picture of an undefined issue. Opinions from multiple people with mocked-up screen shots and clear descriptions of the reasons for the opinion as well as suggestions for a modification is constructive whether or not you or the developer agree with the ideas or not. Let's not forget that at one point the inability of people to complete the donation process was impeded by the UI overlap.

[EDIT This too: There are actually common reasons to have some UI elements span buttons and backgrounds in some situations (counter to what I prefer) especially when reconciling light and dark themes, but I hear no logical argument or even mention of those things, just gripes about the input that was provided.]

You might want to brush up on your history before casting such bogus condescension.

...and PefectSayer is free to speak to that if they choose to do so (and if they don't speak to it that's OK too). So are you in fact, but please drop the pretenses and stop trying to invalidate the viable feedback of others by saying it was poorly delivered just because you disagree with it. You did not speak to the ideas, you merely complained about people providing them.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
This is true.

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[MENTION=2822685]PerfectSlayer[/MENTION], If you've got reasons for the current layout and feel that it is immutable that is certainly your choice and is fair enough. Please don't take this feedback about the UI as some kind of complaint or attack on you or as a lack of appreciation of your efforts. The fact that JudgeDread11 chooses to see viable feedback of others as a lack of appreciation for you is unfortunate, and you are not being helped their falsely describing the feedback of others and attempting to squelch reasonable input. If you do reject the suggestions I hope that is because you reviewed them rather than a mis-description of them. As I said in an earlier post which got lost in the flow; even though I think there is room for improvement 5.0.5 was a nice jump forward. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
Adaway has particularly good built-in help which covers webserver (among other things). In app: Show Help (button) > FAQ (tab) > "How do I use the webserver in Adaway?" (section).
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
Guys, when you open AdAway 5.0.5, down on the bottom-right is link to GitHub.

Developer has asked that issues are mainly reported there - so report also UI issues there

Search through the open issues and check if the same or similar one is already opened and add your comments there

Of course, help to developer by providing screenshots, marking problematic elements on the screenshots and by verbose describing the issue
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
Point taken. Had I not been so late to test I would have reported it at git or added to the existing ticket. Thanks for the reminder. That being said, typically before something is considered an issue or feature request worth reporting at git there would be some discussion about it here, which in turn allows GitHub to focus on things the that are actually reported and prioritize issues over design suggestions. Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] hochoch:
It looks like Quibi's casting function is being broken by adaway v5.0.5. When i turn it off it's fine, but will not work while blocking is active. Is there a way to determine what host file needs to be whitelisted to get it to work normally?

thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] AlDollaz:
Using AdAway 5.0.5. Does anyone know what to uncheck to unblock the Amazon app? When opening the app, I get a "Uh oh something went wrong on our end". After disabling AdAway, Amazon works again.

But I don't want to disable AdAway.
[Android Apps and Games] darkstar73:
Disable webserver
[Android Apps and Games] Rvezz28:
The list isn't that long, I don't use Amazon all that often so I apologize ifView attachment 2750008 this doesn't fix your problem and it's an incomplete list.
[Android Apps and Games] an0n981:
Think of it as a telephone book, google.com is the name and the IP address as the the phone number, first the system looks in the local list (host file) if it has an entry for google.com. If yes that address is where it sends the traffic. If no, it asks your DNS server for the address. AdAway works by adding entries to the host file with the address 127.0.0.1. Which is always the local machine, meaning traffic won't go anywhere. If there is no entry then your machine will ask the DNS server, which will tell your machine that google.com has for example 173.194.70.101 and the traffic will be sent there.

At this system level your machine has no way of differentiating which app sent the DNS request. So there is no way to whitelist apps.
[Android Apps and Games] Piemo:
How can I distinguish request from that app from all the other apps in background?

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[Android Apps and Games] tcat007:
Amazon issue solved (Nexus 5). I didn't read this whole thread, so solution may already be here, but to solve Amazon images not being displayed: I installed the D4rken mod (1st post), copied hosts file to PC (or if you have a text editor on your phone that edits large files), search for "ecx", delete that line, save file. Good to go, Amazon images now show up. I unchecked updates in Adaway so the file wouldn't get over-written. I tried white listing ecx.images-amazon.com, but didn't seem to work.
[Android Apps and Games] Reconfigured:
ok so can anyone tell me how can I extract address of apps that I've to add to whitelist???
[Android Apps and Games] -=bhf=-:
This one works for me:

ecx.images-amazon.com
[Android Apps and Games] ody12:
This used to work for me not anymore though
[Android Apps and Games] rbird2:
Amazon Fixed!

This worked for me!

Thank you for providing this information.

Rodger
[Android Apps and Games] tcat007:
Worked for me too, and decided to add another host source found here, and all is even better! A few more in-app ads gone!
[Android Apps and Games] IImanuII:
D4rken mod works perfect on my n4 4.3

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 con Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Reconfigured:
thanks buddy but I need to know how and from where I can find out address of any xyz app to add it to whitelist...
[Android Apps and Games] an0n981:
There is a log dns requests option, for this to work properly disable the host file first.
[Android Apps and Games] Reconfigured:
ok got it... so what's next after dns logging...
[Android Apps and Games] an0n981:
Add the relevant entries to the white list, then reapply host file and reboot
[Android Apps and Games] UPdownLoAD:
After yesterday's update, I can now see images again from the Amazon App store. I did not make any changes to my whitelist as others have mentioned they had.
[Android Apps and Games] Reconfigured:
hey buddy.... the ad away is disabled and under log dns request toggling TCPdump it shows on... but after going back there it shows TCPdump not running and I've to re toggle and again the same... shows OFF... I'm using d4ark mod...
[Android Apps and Games] 5318008:
Working perfectly on my Droid Razr M with rooted stock 4.1.2.
[Android Apps and Games] swat4samp:
I too face that problem :(..unfortunately there is no solution for this.
[Android Apps and Games] elektroda:
Can someone please upload latest vesion of host file provided by adaway?

Thanks in advance
[Android Apps and Games] an0n981:
Here's mine, but be aware I have 16 host sources and a few white and black list items

https://mega.co.nz/#!Y9BzAIAZ!Q_jHYhXumNNUxVX66Lkl858bG7f_GBLEIIjm0VtFGng
[Android Apps and Games] Wolfcity:
If you're using Adaway on a rooted device:

First post -> wiki -> Log DNS.

https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway/wiki/LogDNS

Btw, if you use the search function you may find a list of hostnames to block for Amazon because the question has been asked several times.
[Android Apps and Games] AlDollaz:
Thanks. I... totally didn't know about this. I thought it was odd because 4.3.5 doesn't give me a problem.

Appreciate it.
[Android Apps and Games] Rainman67:
I have a problem when trying to install AdAway 5.0.5. I always get an error (parsing error) during installation. AdAway 4.3.5 works without problems. Maybe the reason is, that i'm on Android 7 (i know, not the newest one)?
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
See
[Android Apps and Games] AndrOmega:
adaway 5.0.5 installed in non root mode

after each reboot i have to enable manually ad blocking even with the option activated...
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
You must enable Autostart option in your native phone Settings, like for WA, weather widgets and similar.

You also need to disable Battery optimization for AdAway (VPN mode) to prevent system to kill the app during the deep sleep
[Android Apps and Games] AndrOmega:
no such setting on my note 10 plus--went to adaway app permissions and tells me that none is necessary

also battery optimization is turned off

altough with previous adblocker installed (adclear) had no problem with autoenable after rebooting device

:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] JudgeDread11:
With "My Android Tools" look if the boot receiver is enabled, and if it's not then enable it.

If it is enabled then it's something on your device that blocks it from starting.
[Android Apps and Games] IronTechmonkey:
PM
[Android Apps and Games] dingsaller:
Disable adaways webserver and everything is fine.

This was explained several times in this thread, please search the next tine before asking.
[Android Apps and Games] mark manning:
Hello

I removed a few posts. As someone else said, this is a developer forum and political talk is against the rules of the forum. If you feel a conversation is warranted with a developer that involves a certain subject, please contact them via PM or other means.
[Android Apps and Games] AndrOmega:
Checked and boot receiver is enabled

Also i have a friend with Galaxy S10 and the same problem...adaway is dezactivated upon boot

Both Phone using non root mode 5.0.5
[Android Apps and Games] JudgeDread11:
The boot receiver enabled means that it will accept the 'notice' (intent) the system send out on a boot.

So either this 'notice' never arrives. Your system has options to prevent apps from starting at boot? Or disable receivers/intents?

Or the app gets killed as soon as it starts. Some battery saver/memory manager?

Last option, AdAway received the intent, but doesn't respond to it properly internally. I doubt this is the case though because then there would be many more reports.

Edit. It could be an out of memory thing. To many things start at boot so some get killed again to free up memory.

You can try limiting what apps start at boot. With My Android Tools, disable the boot receiver for all apps that you don't need to start at boot. (Good practice anyway, some apps start at boot and run in the background just to collect data.)
[Android Apps and Games] maddog3030:
All links in the OP page lead to "about: blank" page!...

Any suggestions?
[Android Apps and Games] Oswald Boelcke:
I've just checked each and every link in the OP, and the ALL provide positive results i.e. unable to reproduce your issue.
[Android Apps and Games] dvhttn:
Fine here. W10 PC + Brave browser in the UK.
[Android Apps and Games] maddog3030:
Can only get to the main site by stripping the URL down to

https://adaway.org/

All other alliterations timeout.

On the phone and the laptop.

And the f-droid store only shows 4.3.4 as being the latest

Brave browser just shows this site can't be reached.

If I try adaway.org/adaway.apk it says file not found but it does take me to the website

I was able to get 4.3.5 off the github....

PS... Carriers Comcast and T-Mobile, both with the same results.

Https://GitHub.com/adaway/adaway/release/tag/v4.3.5

Work!!!!
[Android Apps and Games] Tommytommy1234:
Same result with adaway.org/adaway.apk because you can download the apk through f-droid or github not the website itself. On f-droid they update the apk after 1 week of release , if I remember correctly.
[Android Apps and Games] gonzo1963:
Good morning,

4.3.5 version, ¿virus?

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...ebf9920654beab01a418b476c2d26e93a05/analysis/ #VTMobile*

Regards

Enviado desde mi unknown mediante Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] drnightshadow:
Loool this lool

You make my day :D:D:D
[Android Apps and Games] Nergal di Cuthah:
One hit is usually a false positive, however the one that grabs it calls it grey.adaway so it's probably flagging it because it (like some malware) can change the host file.
[Android Apps and Games] PoochyX:
Coukd adaway handle these ads that Vance can't get View attachment 5055599
[Android Apps and Games] ennexx:
Try and wait for a vanced update adaway won't work in yanced youtube
[Android Apps and Games] skateguy1234:
Anyone else noticing ads where they used to be blocked with this new merged host file? Maybe I am just visiting more clever sites. For example though, I am currently on apkmirror and seeing ads as scrolling through older versions of an apk.
[Android Apps and Games] simcold:
For root user better use version 4 or 5?

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[Android Apps and Games] Tommytommy1234:
I'm using 4.3.5 without any problems. I didn't tried v5 because I'm using Android 7 right now. You can try both anyway. V5 is still in beta so maybe you will encounter some problems(or maybe not). If you are using root, get the v4 for me. And update later.
[Android Apps and Games] Wishmasterflo:
I use Version 5 with root now. Just try it out.
[Android Apps and Games] swieder711:
I was looking to make a donation to the developer of AdAway. Does anyone know why Paypal wants to charge me a .99 fee for this donation? Seems odd to me.

Update: "There is a fee when you send a payment to someone in another country or if you receive a payment from someone in another country." That is too bad!
[Android Apps and Games] jeepcook:
Hello,

How to block in-app playstore ads whithout blocking access to play store ?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] MC_Ohr:
Has anyone experience with Adaway 5.0.5 VPN mode on Oppo (Reno 2z) ColorOS 7? For me the VPN connection is active but no ads are blocked. On my HTC U11 life with Android one 10 it works like a charm.

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[Android Apps and Games] Nergal di Cuthah:
Not with adaway probably. I doubt playstore uses dns for its ads.
[Android Apps and Games] jeepcook:
Finally simply add play.google.com in blacklist and it's ok!
[Android Apps and Games] pycxe-01:
Aren't you blocking some Google services that way too? Does background synchronization work as before? Did you notice any abnormalities?
[Android Apps and Games] jeepcook:
From now everything works
[Android Apps and Games] lukjod:
Can someone point me on valid servers whitest for obdeleven app to earn free daily credits without switching off adaway. I tried to log dns request but after adding 2 servers it still doesn't want to run

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.voltasit.obdelevenView attachment 5057513

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[Android Apps and Games] EMJI79:
Is there a way to use Google's Art& Culture app with AdAway ?
[Android Apps and Games] labello29:
Hello guys after update samsung browser (note 8 android pie root magisk +module systemlees hosts) adaway 4.3.5

no longer works for someone the same problem happened and how you solved it thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Nergal di Cuthah:
Does the browser have its own ad block? Or "speed boost"? Either of those may bypass hosts file.
[Android Apps and Games] labello29:
the browser gives me the opportunity to block advertising by downloading apps from the store (useless) with adaway i was very well sorry that there is no solution
[Android Apps and Games] MC_Ohr:
5.0.4 works as it should on my Oppo.

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[Android Apps and Games] Catani:
Just tried 5.0.5 on my Redmi Note 7 and it's a no go. Tried installing applied hosts restarted phone and I had ads everywhere. Re-applied hosts, still ads, restarted phone and nothing. I had ads everywhere. Went back to version 4.3 and everything works flawlessly. Am I missing something?
[Android Apps and Games] lukjod:
Same on samsung s10+ rooted, 4.3.5 works ok 5.0.5 seems fine like server started cert installed but apps showing ada

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[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
Have you enabled Systemless hosts in Magisk?

AdAway 5.0.5 works flawlessly on Mi 9T with MIUI 11
[Android Apps and Games] Catani:
Yeah.... I had system less hosts enabled. Turns out that even though after you install it, it says synced and everything seems OK, but I had to manually download the hosts file, twice actually. The second time the app showed 54k ads blocked and started working. Weird, might be a bug, might be a glitch. The important thing is that it's now working. Thanks for the reply... Have a good one
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
After installing Systemless hosts, you must restart. And after downloading hosts sources better restart again
[Android Apps and Games] lukjod:
In my case it simply do not updates

https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt

List and always shows like 652 months old regardless of how many manual tries I make. It must be some error, also host file is max 20 lines long instead of 4.3.4 version where is few thousand lines long

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[Android Apps and Games] Siddk007:
After installing Adaway 5.0.5, my amazon shopping app no longer works. whitelisted some amazon hostnames after searching, but no fix. I can see lots of amazon hosts in blocked section.

Edit: disabling webserver fixed the issue.
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
Yeah
[Android Apps and Games] MrPhilo:
Some reason my Adaway 4.3.5 isn't detecting systemless root. I have it in the module but it remains unticked. Can someone help? Not sure what to do as I've reinstalled. Cleaned Magisk and reinstalled again and it still the same.
[Android Apps and Games] KNGPN Q w Q:
Can you make sure you have enabled the systemless host module in Magisk settings (you'll see an extra module appear in your module list, make sure it is in fact enabled; reboot if necessary). Secondly, make sure AdAway has root rights in the Superuser tab of Magisk. If these two are all set correctly, AdAway should be able to use the root method
[Android Apps and Games] MrPhilo:
Yes, I have it in module and adaway has root.

One thing which is weird is that when I unistall Adway and install it back, it keeps my setting I added to it, like its not being unistalled properly or the data is still being kept. Never happened to me before ono OP8P
[Android Apps and Games] fwork:
Does AdAway change my hosts on start? Without enabling systemless hosts, i launched the app and granted root access. But i didn't enable the rules. I wonder is my hosts changed in this case? I'm asking because it may affect my OTA.

Thanks a lot.
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
If your system is not Read Only then AdAway should be able to write directly to hosts file without needing Systemless hosts.

You can test by not enabling Systemless hosts and check by e.g. MiXPlorer if hosts file is still nearly empty (few KB) or filled by AdAway (several MB)

You can even test if you can edit the hosts file (so is it read-only or not) when you don't enable Systemless hosts (when Systemless hosts is enabled, you actually see and edit the read-write overlay, not the actual [read-only] hosts file)

Each time you enable/disable hosts file, you must restart the phone before you further experiment with the hosts file !!!

With or without systemless hosts, most devices must be restarted after updating hosts file, otherwise DNS resolver continues to use the old, cached hosts file.

Hence that also depends on your device but you can test by adding something to the AdAway black or white list, not restarting the phone and checking if e.g. browser can open or not that site
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
How does URL type file:// work in AdAway v5.05 for the hosts source?

Seems that I would really need to run a local webserver on the phone, hosting a file like:

file://127.0.0.1/my-hosts.txt

For comparison, DNS66 supports content:// type, making it possible to use file explorer and navigating to any file on the Internal memory, like:

content://com.android.providers.downloads.documents/document/raw%3A%2Fstorage%2Femulated%2F0%2FDownload%2Fmy-hosts.txt

First screenshots from AdAway, the other two from DNS66
[Android Apps and Games] guhvanoh:
Have you tried a triple slash e.g. file:///sdcard/myhosts/my-hosts-20200714.txt
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
Good point but when I use file:/// it fails to apply the new configuration - first screenshot

I think that problem is in the Storage permission - on the next four screenstots you can see that AdAway does not consider Storage permission, it is neither allowed nor denied and I cannot grant it

For comparison, last two screenshots show Storage permission for DNS66
[Android Apps and Games] DiamondJohn:
Ninja'd!

The gotchya with the file thing, is that its normally a triple slash. ie

file:///data/media/0/myfile.txt

Not sure whats happening with the localhost IP and then no path:confused: