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[Android Apps and Games] city2026:
I don't know if I should write it, sorry if this is off-topic, but didn't find a page where useful whitelists are posted for adaway

So, I had a problem logging in to my yahoo account on a fresher version of android.

Found out, that one particular URL prevented that by being on the blacklist of an adblock, it was google analytics (o_O). Maybe it's somehow connected with access to google-accounts on the phone, maybe it prevents loading of login tab somehow otherwise

Next URLs was found into dns-trace of a freshly installed app just before hitting the login button (my adaway was switched off at this moment):

Spoiler content hidden.

After putting the first line into the whitelist, everything becomes okay after switching adaway back on.
[Android Apps and Games] Lughnasadh:
Thanks for the info. I've found temporarily turning off webserver also allows me to login to Yahoo.
[Android Apps and Games] Wolfcity:
Nice update and a very good idea to make DNS logging accessible from home screen. It also seems to work better than before, I'm using the VPN non-root version and had to toggle AdAway on and off several times before to make the logging start. Now it seems to work after one time toggling or right out of the box.

Good work and thanks a lot!

Enjoy your well deserved break.
[Android Apps and Games] d3rt0xx:
No update on F-Droid yet
[Android Apps and Games] Wolfcity:
Quite normal and not in the hands of the developer @PerfectSlayer but in charge of F-Droid:

So you will have to wait or change to the github/XDA build.
[Android Apps and Games] Pinage:
Did you try delete and add host source again? I did that and it solve my problem
[Android Apps and Games] krilok:
Yes, had already tried that as mentioned on my post, but didn't work. In any event, thanks to the app update that was released a couple of days ago the issue seems to have been resolved. Thanks anyway... 😉
[Android Apps and Games] klisza1993:
Its working on Android TV !! Exacly on miboxS 4k.. no ads anymore on yt app ;) thx a lot.
[Android Apps and Games] Akash sky:
Hey there, I'm using adaway on my oneplus 7T,Yaap rom.

But recently i started facing issues regarding amazon app so i decided to delete the adway but even after deleting the app, it is still block amazon n other ads.

please help.
[Android Apps and Games] Wolfcity:
It would have been enough to disable the webserver in adaway (a search in this thread for "Amazon" would have given you several results to fix your problem).

If you still want to stay without AdAway just delete the host file and reboot. Android will create a new one.
[Android Apps and Games] syanz87:
I had same issue with Amazon app (INDIA).

Updated my whitelist in Adaway. And After......... Amazon works Perfectly..

This is the SS of the list. 👇🏻👇🏻View attachment 5307241
[Android Apps and Games] Wolfcity:
One possible solution. As said above: A quick search would have brought you there, disabling webserver or whitelisting the related URLs.
[Android Apps and Games] gallegonovato:
Good afternoon:

First of all let me thank you for all your work, your effort. And for all that you do.

It turns out that today while reviewing the filters I have in Adaway, I noticed one thing. That inside AdAway I have:

StevenBlack

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

StevenBlack Complete

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/alternates/fakenews-gambling-porn-social/hosts

StevenBlack Unified Hosts

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

Is it just me or do I have StevenBlack hosts in triplicate?

And one more question if I may. I wanted to blacklist Adaway. A website, but I saw that the fellow who wrote a little bit above used the * . So if for example, let's imagine I want to block everything from tiktok. I would just blacklist *tiktok.com or *tiktok. That is to say with the *, I indicate that I want to block everything from that site?

Thank you very much for your help
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
* sign replaces any string (even empty string) at the place where you put the sign *

I.e., *c* will blacklist any site having the letter c anywhere in the URL (hence also all .com sites)

cc*m* will blacklist any site starting with cc and having a letter m anywhere after the cc

And so on.

Blacklisting *adaway will even block the adaway github page but it will not block adaway.org site because *adaway ends with adaway while adaway.org ends differently

I don't understand why would you block adaway

Default AdAway comes with only three sources, all others you added yourself.

You can go to Settings/Apps/AdAway and Clear Data - you will have to reconfigure your AdAway but you will see then what were the default sources AdAway comes with (IMO, only the third Steven Black from your list, but no guarantee)
[Android Apps and Games] gallegonovato:
Good afternoon @zgfg

First of all thank you for your help and for always being there :)

So if I put *tiktok it would block everything that contains tiktok. I mean ads and so on. And whether the domain is, com or org. If I understand you wrong?.

I don't want to block adaway just put some pages and so on.

About Adaway I know it has three sources of origin hosts. And the rest I put them. But looking today I saw those three from Steven. The StevenBlack Unified Hosts (which comes by default in Adaway) but for example the StevenBlack Complete I put it to cover gaming stuff, porn and others as Steven says in his github. But I noticed that in those two that I added is included all the StevenBlack Unified Hosts. That's why I said to change the complete one so I don't have to add the fakenews and others. Because I thought that in the Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling + porn + social was already included fakenews and others. But I see that I have https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts left over, which would be the one that includes Adaway. But I should have added it because in the https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts table it says Additional sketch domains as I come across them.

I don't know if it would be possible for new versions of Adaway to add https://github.com/jerryn70/GoodbyeAds or do you know or could you tell me a good and complete one with the ads?

A hug and thanks for your help.
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
No , *tiktok covers anything ENDING with tiktok - tiktok.com STARTS with tiktok but ends with .com

Better you put tiktok.* to cover both tiktok.com and tiktok.org - but that would also blacklist sites like (if they exist) tiktok.WHATEVER.uk and so on
[Android Apps and Games] gallegonovato:
Good afternoon:

Now it is clear to me. Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards
[Android Apps and Games] Nergal di Cuthah:
Wait do you just want to ban ads on tiktok? or entirely block tiktok. As it stands your current answer is the second one.
[Android Apps and Games] DiamondJohn:
I have gone down the path of better to add the block-list, than to investigate it further and thereby not add it. As such I have something like 60 host sources.

To better understand how these host sources overlap, I built a script that compares the contents between lists. Even lists from other unrelated sources could completely cover the other. For example, Steven Blacks list includes a bunch of other sources, so including the source list could be considered redundant (ignoring timings).

In the menu of my app TeMeFI, there are a few analysis items for AdAway, including "Currently Running>Hosts>AdAwau Info>Exclusive Hosts", which lists your hosts that have unique hosts items, not present in any other list sources. So its a possible comparison between lists not necessarily obviously related.

One thing to be weary of, is do not run these methods while adaway is updating the database.. Although it makes a copy of the AdAway database (and hence wont damage a live dB), if AdAway is processing it, the database copy will be malformed.

I just ran it on mine, and the steven black unified list, was the only one that came up with unique hosts. The other Steven blacks had no unique hosts. Which may be because of steven blacks "Unified" hosts, or the fact I have some really big other hosts host sources. There is also a method to compare individual lists against all others. But in my case, the database is so big, the shell commands have I/O errors.

View attachment 5308435

So from the above, Steven Black Unified has only 143 hosts that are not in any other list. BUT those 143 may just be the 143 that allow my apps to source their ads from.

Due to my large lists (i have around 900k blocked hosts today), i do get a lot of I/O errors in the analysis. but using smaller lists, it should be OK.
[Android Apps and Games] the bolt of thunder:
So my amazon app keeps crashing after installing AdAway 5.6.0. I used the search function here and am finding to disable web server.

What exactly does enable/disable web server do? Will I lose ad blocking abilities by disabling this?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hi, I am using latest Adaway with root access. But it is not blocking Spotify ads.
[Android Apps and Games] Nergal di Cuthah:
Spotify ads I don't think use the hosts file so would not be blocked, this app (mostly) just blocks web ads and a few ads in apps (those which don't use an ip address or addon to reach their ad servers)
[Android Apps and Games] Sadman Fahad:
If i enable adaway my play store says connection problem...i am in miui 12.5 A11...
[Android Apps and Games] Wolfcity:
Have you any host lists other than the default ones activated?

The lists that AdAway comes with shouldn't block the playstore.

Try DNS logging:

LogDNS

AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android. - AdAway/AdAway

github.com
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
I'm too on MIUI 12.5, A11 (Xiaomi Mi 9T, Xiaomi.eu 21.5.12), but I have no problem with Google Play store

As responded in the previous post, check which hosts sources you use. Disable all other hosts sources than the three installad by default with AdAway. Restart the phone and test againt

Indeed, there are various hosts sources published on Internet, and some of them are openly anti-Google, blocking the traffic from Google sites

Additionally (also recommended in the previous answer above), you can disable AdAway blocking and then use DNS logging from AdAway (while accessing Playstore) to recognize which site(s) must not be blocked - then add those sites to your Allow list in AdAway. Find the more detailed instructions on AdAway page

Edit:

Attached is my adaway-backup.json (download and unzip).

You can disable all your hosts sources and manually added blocked sites, then import my json (AdAway Preferences, Backup and Restore, Restore), restart the mobile and test with - by using those hosts sources (more than the default three), I have no problem with Google Play
[Android Apps and Games] Android_Addict2021:
Is anyone using Linux? Or does everything require Windows?
[Android Apps and Games] Nergal di Cuthah:
Neither all is done on android itself for adaway to work
[Android Apps and Games] gallegonovato:
Good afternoon:

I have adaway 5.6.0 with 40 host lists. And before I had more number of things blocked but since one day ago though I update the host list. It doesn't go over 1167542 of blocked things and I don't know why.

Best regards

Pd: attached adaway backup with the lists and things I have blocked.
[Android Apps and Games] DiamondJohn:
Have you checked if you have crossover/duplication between lists?

If you are rooted, I have built an app (TeMeFI) with this check included. see my post a few above yours. Ive seen my numbers jump around as the sources get updated, and drop dead hosts, or add a big batch of new hosts. Your high number may of been at a point when your list had a bunch of dead hosts, that were subsequently removed.
[Android Apps and Games] gallegonovato:
Good morning @DiamondJohn

I'm going to go back and check the lists on it. Let's see if it is what you are telling me. I reviewed it a while ago. When I had the doubts with Steven's. But in the end because of the short time I had I did nothing. But if I have more time this weekend I will look at them as the canons dictate.

Thank you very much for your help.

By the way one more question, if you allow me. Active web server or not? What is it really for?

Because the only difference I notice is whether it is active or not. It asks me if I want to connect to my operator. And even if I accept or not I don't have data.

Best regards
[Android Apps and Games] DiamondJohn:
I cant help you with that, but there are plenty of post already in this thread to read about it, and basically everyone else would know more than me on the topic, because I know nothing about it.
[Android Apps and Games] gallegonovato:
Good evening @DiamondJohn

You have nothing to worry about my friend. You have helped me a lot :) . And for that I give you my sincere thanks.

I don't know much about everything. Compared to anyone else. And you must be very proud, if not look at the application you created. I have to spend eons to get there.

A hug and thank you very much for your help and for being there to help me.
[Android Apps and Games] evilhomura89:
Hi, need some guidance here

AdAway seems to prevent images in their articles from this particular site - soranews24.com from loading properly. See attached screenshot.

Eg - https://soranews24.com/2021/05/25/o...te-squid-ink-habanero-seaweed-taco-dumplings/

It seems to be some sort of SVG img file with base64 encoding. Can anyone help to see which URL needs to be whitelisted in order for images in their articles to load properly?

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[Android Apps and Games] Jwtiyar:
Hey

Adaway after upgrading my custom on xiaomi mi 9, it's not blockong ads from apps. What to to do?

I use 5.6 version.
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
Root or non-root?

If root, Systemless hosts properly enabled (might be that System is read-only for your custom ROM)?

If non-root mode, no other DNS VPN running (might be in your custom ROM by default)?

All these details are important
[Android Apps and Games] Jwtiyar:
It's rooted.
[Android Apps and Games] paul c:
Hi, using 5.6.0 on a rooted Samsung S20+, running Android 11 May security patch.

AdAway does a great job, but I can't work this one out.

I get my daily ration of football news from here:

https://www.theguardian.com/football.

I've tried with Chrome, Opera, Edge, Brave.... But with the same outcome.

Halfway down the page there are dynamic links to the most popular football articles, and next to it, the most popular articles on the site (across the Guardian), this is the link:

https:// www. the guardian . com / football#tabs-popular-2

Added spaces in there, otherwise the forum just displays a link to the first URL. Note the "#" in there ...

If I disable AdAway and tap on the "across the Guardian" link, the list renders. However with AdAway enabled, nothing happens when tapping on the link.

I have enabled logging and tried whitelisting some sites, but that doesn't seem to work.

I suspect the issue is something to do with that "#" in the URL...

Any ideas on how to allow this list to render? Configuration/whitelisting?

Thanks in advance
[Android Apps and Games] zgfg:
And - Systemless hosts?
[Android Apps and Games] DiamondJohn:
A simpleand quick acid test is to simply try pinging a blocked hosts, from within a shell.
[Android Apps and Games] Jwtiyar:
Thank you i found a server was blocked on my app whoch was 0.1sercher.biz from terminal i did ping to it and was recieving normally.
[Android Apps and Games] Jwtiyar:
It's enabled from magisk.
[Android Apps and Games] gallegonovato:
Good afternoon:

In this new version of Adaway. And more since a few days ago here. I notice that Adaway seems to be getting dazed. Or the same after updating the host list, if you hit check for updates again. I see how the counter of the host list I have installed goes down. And if I go to the hosts list, it says below installed for few minutes. Or installed a few minutes ago.

Even with Magisk systemless and Magisk and Magisk Manager in its latest version.

The solution I found was to clear the Adaway cache. Then download Magisk again (from the Magisk application itself). And then reboot the phone.

Even other times it is solved, deleting the Adaway cache, then I pass lte cleaner. And I reboot the phone

What if after rebooting in any update of the host list, I notice that Adaway nose lock. Even if I give it back to check for updates. Or to download directly. I even notice that after updating any of the hosts list I have. Adaway does all its processes. And then I restart, because maybe it shows that there is some other update in another hosts source.

So, I don't know if it can help you. After the updates, reboot the device.

I don't know if it would be possible to add to Adaway, an option like there was in older versions. To check if you want it to reboot or not.

I apologize if maybe I do not explain myself well in English. But I have been several nights without sleep and with work. So my head when translating and thinking in another language. I could make mistakes or not express myself clearly.

Best regards
[Android Apps and Games] mingkee:
@PerfectSlayer

May I ask why

CVS app always crashed when adaway is on. Is there any solution like add app exception or some users can find out which site should be put on allowed to avoid crashing?

Note: phone is rooted
[Android Apps and Games] DiamondJohn:
I have a lot of host sources, and I have noticed that sometimes it will report a different lower number. I have been meaning to investigate it further before posting. For now, apart from the fact I have a lot of host sources so a few missing isn't too concerning, but I just refresh manually once or twice, and it will correct itself. As I said, I have been meaning to look into it a little more to better understand where its tripping over, but I thought I would post so @gallegonovato does not think its just him.
[Android Apps and Games] gallegonovato:
Good afternoon:

Many thanks for the heads up @DiamondJohn . But I was testing, and then on family or friend's mobiles. Which are also rooted, with magisk (systemless included), and Adaway. And in them there are and have variety of listings or host sources. And they notice the same thing. Even a friend of mine, uninstalled Adaway. He reinstalled it, after cleaning the mobile with sd maid, clean the cache and pass lte cleaner (from fdroid). And restarted the phone and installed it. And then I load the backup. For example in the mobile of this friend of mine, a oneplus. It happens to him the same as me. With 13 host sources and 8 things blacklisted.

That is when Adaway checks for updates (sent by him, meaning he has automatic updates disabled. And he hits the check for updates button on the main Adaway screen). He checks for updates, adaway does the whole process of downloading, creating the hosts and copying the new hosts. And then if you hit download again, you will see the number of installed sources decreasing, and you will get one to update. And if you click on download Adaway does not download or re-recognize all the fonts. You have to restart the phone after each update and so it does not give that problem. It even clears the adway cache. And other times without clearing the cache.

That's why I told you to reboot after an update of the font list. And also after making a change in the hosts list. Or put something in the blacklist, etc...

I don't know if it's because with magisk (in its latest version and systemless enabled). Adaway and magisk don't get along well or magisk doesn't recognize the superuser permission well. But what I do know is that it is better to reboot after each update so that the system settles (so to speak) and adaway too.

That's why I was talking about going back to the old options. That allows you to check reboot and it does it by itself.

At the moment the phones that take lineageos 17.1 , 18.1 some with official versions of lineageos. And other unofficial, but downloaded lineageos and installed from the part that comes out in xda for each mobile.

I take this opportunity to comment if there is a possibility that Adaway accept links from Codeberg. Since there are people who would appreciate this new feature or option.

Best regards
[Android Apps and Games] gallegonovato:
Good afternoon:

I was testing on the test mobile. A Nexus 5 with lineageos 17.1 from https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-unofficial-lineageos-17-1-for-nexus-5-hammerhead.4039273/ . Magisk Manager and Magisk in its latest version, with systemless enabled.

First I uninstalled Adaway. Pass sd maid and lte cleaner. To clean things on the phone. Then reboot the phone. I ran sd maid and lte cleaner again. And then install Adaway again.

I configured it, it search and download the updates from the default host lists it brings.

And then I set about sorting and alphabetizing the host lists.

I changed the name that comes up in the Adaway list. From Adaway Hosts to Adaway. Then I deleted Steven's unified list. Since when putting the Complete Steven already includes the previous one (correct me if I am wrong?).

And then I deleted the one of pgl with 127.0.0.1 because I use the same one but with 0.0.0.0.0.

Ok after adding the new lists with their corresponding names. And apply the changes and Adaway did all the processes it has to do. I saw that all the sources I had added were fine. All loaded and putting them up to date for so long.

But I looked at Adaway's and Steven Completo's (as I call it, the one with porn stuff, games etc...). Those put Adaway installed a few minutes ago and Steven's updated for a few minutes.

Clear the Adaway cache. Reboot the phone. I went back to Adaway, hit update. Steven's corrected it, putting installed for so long. But Adaway's remained as is. Even giving manually to download updates several times.

I will look tomorrow to see if it is corrected. But today there was no way.

If I remember correctly but I speak from memory right now uses 127.0.0.1 no?. Maybe the failure in my case is that as I use all the hosts with 0.0.0.0.0 do not check the edit box. That had already happened to me when they changed the form of Adaway I think it was in 5.4 if I'm not mistaken.

But if I have time I will check it tomorrow, I have to go to work.

By the way I leave these hosts https://github.com/kaabir/AdBlock_Hosts ( tremendous hosts based Comprehensive hosts to block Ads, Analytics, Tracking & Telemetry based on Exodus list and with a lot of sources that uses https://github.com/kaabir/AdBlock_Hosts/blob/master/source.txt including Adaway). But I noticed that Adaway ignores repeated entries leaving only one.

A hug
[Android Apps and Games] desertcat:
Is it the 7.5.0 version (May 14) of the CVS app?

I had a similar problem and rolled back the CVS app to the previous version. After seeing your post, I tried updating the CVS app again. It did crash on opening like I had seen before.

I was able to get the CVS app to work again.

- Update Adaway sources

- Disable Adaway

- Clear CVS app cache and memory

- Restart CVS app (it should work now) and log in

- Enable Adaway

- Open CVS app (it should still work)

P.S. My phone is rooted and I'm a long time Adaway user.
[Android Apps and Games] molitar:
When I have the web server enabled is it possible to hide the logo it is blocking too much of the bottom of the screen the logo is.
[Android Apps and Games] mingkee:
I tried the method. It appears to work at first, but the app crashed few hours later if I keep Adaway on.

Current workaround is to turn AdAway off before opening CVS app
[Android Apps and Games] desertcat:
You're right. I just tried opening the CVS app again and am seeing the same thing.

There's something about the latest version (7.5.0) because I've never seen this on previous versions.