yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
Replying to myself. Just tried this, it doesn't help. Also it happens with both Firefox beta and Chrome Canary, so browser doesn't make a difference.
[Android Apps and Games] ToneLa:
One my rooted Oneplus 5, stock OSm I installed aday from the XDA app, and it opens to just a black screen - it isn't hanging, but that's all it does.

Ads still appear in Chrome.

???
[Android Apps and Games] iamelton:
intalled and ran fine in my rooted OP5..

you may try to download the app again in a browser instead of the xda app..
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
Here's some other black screen issues:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=70620602&postcount=8171

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=70237693&postcount=7907

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60033363&postcount=3115
[Android Apps and Games] ToneLa:
Thanks guys. Looks like SuperSu didn't run on boot for some reason, so I re installed Adaway, manually opened SuperSu and it prompted for permission this time.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] blackdroid52@gmail.com:
Can someone provide me with best host source for blocking. Thanks in Advance
[Android Apps and Games] :
Don't you wanna know what's the best kernel too ? :)
[Android Apps and Games] blackdroid52@gmail.com:
I do know the best kernel and all but i want your opinion that's it.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
The "best" depends on what you need, everyone uses and visits different parts of the web.

You can use the defaults, or search the thread to see what other people have recommended that works for them.
[Android Apps and Games] blackdroid52@gmail.com:
Thanks sir, I'll search and report back for any help I need.
[Android Apps and Games] jamieunit:
Been using adaway for a long time on mm but recently updating to Nougat I still get ads, host enabled and all online. Any suggestions, m9 slim7

Gonna try adb command in the help section tonight.

Edit: it was an APN issue
[Android Apps and Games] xmascious:
The first one is Steven Black's non-GitHub mirror. The rest are HpHost.

Don't add mvps, adaway, pgl yoyo (the default sources), coz it already included in Steven Blacks.

Mahakala/MOAAB is too problematic for me.View attachment 4257020
[Android Apps and Games] dimm0k:
it's there more info on Steven Black's?
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
A link to some research I did some months ago:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=72636702&postcount=9462

Steve Black's list DOES NOT include all the entries of the three defaults.
[Android Apps and Games] BackToAndroid:
I actually did read his site as well as his Github, but still nothing helped. Youtube wasn't helpful at all all these videos just showed how to install which I did long back.

I enabled systemless hosts in Magisk Manager, I deleted hosts file and reapplied AdAway. Also I noticed this issue isn't specific with AdAway I tried DNS66 too even that didn't help in blocking any of the ads.

Any help or suggestion would be appreciated.
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
Youtube ads aren't going to get blocked. As far as games go many of them have hard-coded IP addresses which no ad blocker can stop. What you can do, if the game doesn't require Internet access to play, is block their internet access using something like afwall+ If the game does require access you have basically 2 choices. Deal with it or stop playing and remove the game.

(If you identify the specific IP addresses you could create custom rules in afwall+, but the effort involved probably isn't worth it)
[Android Apps and Games] BackToAndroid:
I haven't seen a single difference after installing AdAway none of the ads have blocked. I don't expect it to work 100% but I know when at least few are blocked.
[Android Apps and Games] ktmom:
From earlier in this thread:
[Android Apps and Games] idbl_fanatic:
Anyone get this to work on Android 8.0? I get "Copy Failed"
[Android Apps and Games] ktmom:
Start reading at this post.
[Android Apps and Games] idbl_fanatic:
THANK YOU!!!! This worked: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73379577&postcount=10868
[Android Apps and Games] BackToAndroid:
This is what I got after [IMG="Google Ad Service"]https://imgur.com/a/PESQS[/IMG] not sure what it means.

Also after running log DNS request I did receive lot of URLs while just browsing one app and a game. This is what I got [IMG="DNS Log"]http://imgur.com/a/6yrUl[/IMG]
[Android Apps and Games] andersjohansson81:
Cant seem to download some lists, Linage, 7.1.2, Magisk systemless.

Any ideas what the issue is?
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
When I try:

https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-complete.txt

via browser, I get a "404 - Page not found"

https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/r/fanboy-complete.txt works, with the "/r/" added.

Steve Black's downloads can be problematic direct from github. Try http://sbc.io/hosts/hosts instead.
[Android Apps and Games] xmascious:
What I mean is StevenBlack don't include hosts file from HpHosts/hostsfile.net.

You may uncheck all default sources, except ad-servers.txt--if you plan to use SB (just see my screenshots)
[Android Apps and Games] andersjohansson81:
Great, that fixed it ? , looked through your previous discussion and I was wondering if there is a downside to keep all sources? I mean adaway removes duplicates when merging files right?
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
Downside? Probably not. Yes, AdAway merges the files, sorts and removes duplicates.

I just question why you need more than what's provided. I'd prefer to run with "exactly what I need, and nothing more".

Both the SB and Hosts.net files are more than adequate by themselves; the authors of those hosts files update frequently, and do a pretty good job of catching ad servers. you just add any extra server entries to the blacklist section of AdAway. In this case, less is better.

One issue we're recently run into is using AdAway with Battery-saving mode; with AdAway, things tend to lag, or at least it does with the default hosts. I'm wondering is a smaller hosts file will make a difference.... It's something that will have to be revisited again.
[Android Apps and Games] andersjohansson81:
Yea, biggest problem for me is Swedish ads, that's why I added fanboys Swedish list. My PC setup on both Lin and win is Steve blacks plus win 10 block list. I recently got adds on aftonbladet.se which I didn't before, but tons of ads without adblock... I have not noticed anything special when using all sources, that's why I asked
[Android Apps and Games] GrayJack:
Latest update of some rules leads Playmarket becomes unable to download any updates.

Also the pictures in the app list cannot be loaded also.

Unfortunately I cannot find in tcpdump list the connections responsible for this so have to disable AdAway and restore original hosts file. Now Playmarket works OK.

Maybe somebody here expects the same problems and can help to find which domains should be added in white list?
[Android Apps and Games] xmascious:
It's because hosts-file.net/adserver.txt.

Add the following into your whitelists and reapply:

play.googleapis.com

apis.google.com
[Android Apps and Games] GrayJack:
It works, thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] xmascious:
I also added this in a whitelist:

android.clients.google.com

www.googleapis.com

www.gstatic.com

play.google.com

Just in case the guys in HpHost go full anti-google and wreak havoc to my Android.

Those url is quite problematic, it can be used by ads, but also needed for normal ops in apps, too.

To have finer grain control, we need something like Adguard.
[Android Apps and Games] rjm831:
I agree with your philosophy, but I will include any & all analytics that can be blocked.

I realize my anti-analytics attitude offends some folks (mostly the ones who monetize from), but....

Appreciate the app & everybody working on it - thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] NLBeev:
Nice attitude. Stopping would offend many folks that doesn't monetize.
[Android Apps and Games] maybeme2:
Yes, the default hosts file definitely is causing lag on my nexus 5. I would be in favor of a much smaller host file of the worst actors and the option to add a few other as they display themselves. Is such a small hosts file available?
[Android Apps and Games] ktmom:
I use just http://sbc.io/hosts/hosts
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
That's what I use. I also change Target IP to 0.0.0.0

It's still a problem in battery saver mode, and I have no clue as to why. A log comparison between battery saver on and battery saver off may reveal something, but I haven't tried that (and don't have the time at the moment to do it properly).

Supposedly it doesn't effect all sites, but XDA is a site that's definitely effected.
[Android Apps and Games] maybeme2:
Why is this one better? Is it smaller?
[Android Apps and Games] NLBeev:
Steven Black has added 'tinyurl.com'.

The ads on this site were already blocked. But I am using tinyurl.com from time to time.

Any idea why this domain is blocked?

Had to whitelist 'tinyurl.com'
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
No, but I also had to whitelist pastebin.com
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
I have some thoughts, but I'll need to discuss them with management ;)
[Android Apps and Games] xmascious:
Url shortener could be use to hide malicious link, some, like adfly force us to stare ads.

But I don't think SB added it himself, he just combining various blocklists from various sources.. not sure which one.
[Android Apps and Games] ktmom:
I posted about that a bit back. There is a difference in the log. I just don't know what it means.
[Android Apps and Games] patrickdrd:
same here with bit.ly
[Android Apps and Games] Paschfire:
I'm looking for some direction as I've read the AdAway Wiki on common issues/solutions this includes skimming over this thread but still cannot find a conclusion in solving my issue.

AdAway is working correctly as long that my connection is WiFi, though once I connect to mobile data AdAway stops ad blocking within apps and Chrome browser.

I am using Chrome Dev, DataSaver is disabled, I have looked at my mobile APN setup and there is a proxy connect present but the APN Profile itself is also greyed out so I cannot edit any of the values within.

I have very limited knowledge on APN editing/creating if this is even possible without disrupting my mobile data connection or if this is even the problem.

Any support or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks you.

My device is Nexus5 runnin DU11.7-N-7.1.2-08/18 Official, Magisk v13.7-170804, Kernel- FKr110.
[Android Apps and Games] visceralpsyche:
Recreate your APN settings and keep proxy blank. That's what's causing the problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Paschfire:
While I do appreciate the suggested steps unfortunately they were unsuccessful.

I have created, saved and enabled a copy of the original APN minus the proxy settings, though upon reboot the device defaults back to the original APN.

I also tried to discard/delete the original APN, though it seems to be write protected as it remains intact. So it cannot be deleted or editted.

I'm now guessing I need access to the SIM card setup settings menu of some sorts, just not sure if these protected settings can be accessible from within the Device itself.
[Android Apps and Games] NLBeev:
For users of Steven Black hosts.

Whitelist candidates from this thread:

bit.ly

pastebin.com

tinyurl.com
[Android Apps and Games] visceralpsyche:
I've never had an APN locked like that. Which phone company are you with? Have you tried a different ROM? Weird.
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
Looking online at Chatr APN setting (with BYOP), I see nothing noted about Proxy addresses. It could be "embedded" in the SIM, and you may be stuck.

SIMs are usually cheap (or free). You could always swap-out SIMs and keep your old number. Maybe something has changed in the configuration. I've had to update SIMs just because of that. APN settings can change too.
[Android Apps and Games] mike the pike:
Hi

I got a Lenovo ZUK Z2plus running on Lineage.

This Rom comes with an extra Root-Zip, so SU is not working.

I was able to install Adaway, but when I want to activate it, it says that it was unable to copy the host-files.

Is that a known issue?

Do you have any suggestions for me?

Thanks in advance.
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
AdAway Needs some sort of root to work.
[Android Apps and Games] PerfectSlayer:
Hi all!

I just pushed some work about the "Scan for Adware" features. It seems a really useful feature to me but I have some questions about it.

The list of adware has not been update since 2 years now (but adware keeps coming!). Does anyone knows a (reliable) source to update the adware package declaration?

Why the adware scan is not automatically run? (with opt-in like the hosts update) Unlike the adblocking, the scan for adware looks more legitimate(*), specially for non Google Play users (without Play Protect).

Imho, if we could have a fresh adware database, this feature deserves a better place with recurrent scan and may be a button on the application main view.

I am the only one to think this could be useful? Any feedback is appreciated!

(*) Please no troll here, I pay the app I use and I try to avoid ad-based app. And yes, I also pay the press I read, contribute a lot of time to FOSS, etc…
[Android Apps and Games] OSheden:
All microG users could be interested by this feature! Having a 2 years old database is indeed useless.

No idea for a reliable source, sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] 2uk3y:
try *cnet*

not sure if work coz u need to know the url that the app try to access so that can add in whitelist

hope that helps
[Android Apps and Games] nldxda:
Unfortunately it didn't work.. :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] HTCore:
How did you sort out?
[Android Apps and Games] 22sl22:
Does anyone know how to get rid of these ads in the browser:

Already tried adding www.googleadservices.com and a few other google ad stuff to blacklist but it's not working, any suggestions?
[Android Apps and Games] cocchiararo:
have you enabled the google proxy for saving bandwith ?
[Android Apps and Games] EP2008:
I also can't get asphalt 8 to work. It load but you can't click on anything. Screw gameloft for nerfing a paid app for ads (so it can be free)... And now I can't use it.
[Android Apps and Games] Cookie Ninja:
Look at the screenshot...it's a stock browser, not chrome (never used chrome myself, thank god)....

My best bet would be to individually add each of the ad servers into your blacklist.

Dead Cookies leave mo trails...
[Android Apps and Games] EP2008:
Figured out how to get Asphalt 8 to work.

I traced the Internet connections made by asphalt thinking I could whitelist a few, but it makes 33 (!!!!) Connections and I'm not going to guess which ones are for ads, so I added "*gameloft.com" to the adaway whitelist, reapplied the host file and it worked. I hope I don't see gameloft adverts or I'll be pissed.

Now, can someone tell me how to disable tcpdump? When I unchecked it, it re enables itself. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling adaway, but it still persists.
[Android Apps and Games] 22sl22:
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Iv'e added the following and still getting ads, do you know of any more? Iv'e tried adding google.com/adsense and google.com/ads but it wouldn't let me
[Android Apps and Games] Cookie Ninja:
Add:

googleads.g.doubleclick.net

pubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Or better still, parse thru my blacklist and select what you wish to add. I don't see any Google ads ever!

Link: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/1/view/5kane5m14990p6v/Hostfiles/my hosts.zip

Dead Cookies leave no trails...
[Android Apps and Games] jackdubl:
I don't think it will block Google search results, but if you click on the result that is an ad it will block the web page from loading.
[Android Apps and Games] 22sl22:
Thanks for the lists but it didn't work. Still seeing those ads after importing, applying and rebooting

Yeah but I want to get rid of them all together
[Android Apps and Games] 1990clb:
Tried this and still couldn't get it to work. Anything else you tried?
[Android Apps and Games] EP2008:
That was it. I added gameloft.com to the white list and reapplied the host file.
[Android Apps and Games] 1990clb:
Tried it again and it worked! Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] linkazoid:
If its not applying in chrome, check the bandwidth management in its settings. Set this to never! This took me a few days to figure out a while ago!
[Android Apps and Games] UchihaKite:
Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Latest Hyperdrive Rom. Keeps getting stuck on Applying :/ first time I tried it, took so long I stopped it and tried like three more times. Won't stick :/
[Android Apps and Games] Shinyhead:
That seems to be a common issue. My adaway version is 2.3 (I believe last one from Play Store) and that is stable on android 4.4.
[Android Apps and Games] UchihaKite:
Can you shoot me a link to that amigo? If that one will work, I would rather use that then trying to get this one to work.
[Android Apps and Games] Shinyhead:
Here is a link to the apk. This is a copy from my titanium backup.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/33twgydfqgpmojp/M1GUETcciS
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
I'm not seeing the list in the code. Where is it?

https://forensics.spreitzenbarth.de/android-malware/

http://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-...-infected-google-play-store-apps-3703625.html

I'm not sure of a complete list. The virus companies have centralized lists.
[Android Apps and Games] PerfectSlayer:
Here it is. The scan is based on Java package patterns. It's checked again any activity, receiver or service that an application may declare.

I don't have any developer store account (Play, Amazon or whatever) but I guess you could easily impersonate the name of an other app so I'm not sure we could directly use app name to find adware without verifying author or checksum for example.
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
https://www.mobogenie.com/download-ad-detector-pro-191958.html

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1679189&page=3

http://sememorandum.wiki.fc2.com/wiki/Android/ModuleAnalysis?sid=e031bc4e1a2788c3d90ed2f3a20bfff9

All of these sites and programs were looking for similar things back in 2011/2012. I'm not sure that this is relevant today.

I'd rather have it reading from an external list rather than an internal; the idea would be for update-ability, but from where would the updates come?
[Android Apps and Games] s--c:
I use the adware feature. Didn't realise it was two years old. Hopefully there is someone that can help to find a reliable source to update.
[Android Apps and Games] gibbsnich:
https://github.com/rshipp/awesome-malware-analysis/blob/master/README.md

https://github.com/ashishb/android-security-awesome/blob/master/README.md

Lots of stuff to integrate is out there.

(But I'm not sure if this functionality should be part of *Ad*Away. Feels like a separate app to me.)
[Android Apps and Games] gullkhan0:
Nexus 5X - Using Pixel Rom (Oreo) w/ SuperSU 2.82

Tried making folder like mentioned in this method https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73379577&postcount=10868 and assigned the appropriate persmissions to the files (644 to hosts; 755 to .script file).

But when I restart, it will it removes the folders that I made (etc, su.d) in the Sbin folder of root. Could anyone please help me solve this issue?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
SuperSU 2.82 or 2.82-SR3? It has to be SR3.
[Android Apps and Games] gullkhan0:
Just 2.82. I saw many mentioned sr3 but I couldn't find any link to that zip.
[Android Apps and Games] s--c:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/xdaforums.com/apps/supersu/2014-09-02-supersu-v2-05-t2868133/amp/
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidHtc101:
Personally I would leave the adware scan separately to Adaway.

We have Google play protect now, and just be very careful where you get your apk's from.

One of my Favourite features of Adaway is the Log dns requests. Perfect for seeing into apps that bypass adaway:)
[Android Apps and Games] xmascious:
A bit off topics from above comments..

Anyone familiar with "Adzhosts"?

it looks like another 'unified' hosts a la Steven Black-- but i'm not sure, site is in Francais: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/adzhosts/files/FORADAWAY.txt/download>

It adds about 2-3 mb to my hosts file (if combined with SB), so it can't be the same (adaway remove duplicates, right?).

Is this worth to add?
[Android Apps and Games] :
I'm french and i tested this list a few weeks

it's a big list because it blocks malwares/malicious (known) domains too

the author doesn't give the sources it aggregat

for 2 weeks now, i turned of this list and i don't noticed ads

if you want to use it you have to put this url : http://www.dug30.fr/AdZHosts/FORADAWAY.txt

i use these :

https://adaway.org/hosts.txt

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

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts

http://www.gameindustry.de/hosts/

and a personal one i manage to add other domains
[Android Apps and Games] rjm831:
Does anyone know of a host list specifically for blocking analytics?
[Android Apps and Games] androcraze:
I'm not seeing any here:

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

Thought: Many of the hosts sources have comments in the files; perhaps one of them has enough info in the comments to allow pruning of what you need. You'd have to build your own, but that may be better than nothing.
[Android Apps and Games] Bimm3r:
Hey, i did what you told me, the only adress that shows in the log is "www.cex.io" i already whitelisted it and reaplyed hosts + phone restart. Still does not work ON WIFI on data it DOES work.... weird . Thanks for the help.
[Android Apps and Games] jaladhjin:
So uhh.. systemless isn't working for me on a Nexus 6p with magisk.

I have a setting specifically titled systemless hosts enabled too & still the AdAway option is grey.

Any suggestions other than "take it up with magisk" ?
[Android Apps and Games] jaladhjin:
Forgot screenshots for the sake of it
[Android Apps and Games] Pkt_Lnt:
Adaway will work fine, even with the option grey. It has been discussed here many times and the complete cosmetic fix is in GitHub but not pushed yet. Still if you set it in Magisk, it will work.

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=72364090&postcount=9154
[Android Apps and Games] hm0o0dy:
Oh wow ! I wasn't sure why AdAway had been removed from Google Play. Thank you for this and now I know.

sent from my Unicorn Covered Unicorns :crying:
[Android Apps and Games] ginathaifa:
This app is working great for me and has been for a long time. However, I'm having this problem recently with a single ad that shows up in several apps. It's an ad for the Facebook app, I never see any other ads on my phone besides this one. Attached.

Is there a way to find out how to block this ad? I know I can add host files to the adaway app but I don't know where this ad is coming from.
[Android Apps and Games] ariefcfa:
AdAway APN

After changing my cellular provider, AdAway stop working for me. I test to use WiFi and AdAway working there. This way i know the problem is with the network, not my system.

I have several APN for the new SIM card and some of it with proxy configured. Based on the wiki page i know that this is the culprit, so i create a new APN without proxy. But AdAway still not working, i tried everything else, reinstall AdAway, disable enable systemless hosts in Magisk V12, nothing work.

Until finally, i delete all APN for that sim card except one that i manually create and one for mms. AdAway is working now. hope this help

My setup:

- cusrom android 7.1.2 (host file in /system/etc)

- magisk, systemless hosts disable (i will enable it later)

- AdAway 3.2
[Android Apps and Games] milocj:
I testing in N6 with Android 8.0 CRDroid ROM and not works

Enviado desde mi Nexus 6 mediante Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] guest4711:
For me it's useful cause it detects some hidden beasts... But I agree an update of the database would be fine (and a link to an explanation of the adware it finds).

Btw I don't use neither g-apps nor microG but I'm interested too...
[Android Apps and Games] osm0sis:
Umm sweet! Oreo appears to have fixed the hung page loading issue using AdAway and Battery Saver on with xda and other sites! :)