How to filter ads on your G1
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Twas a Blessing in disguise
To bad had to throw the big tin can into the trash heap
but am I SOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Glad that I did
Am now using AdAway and it's the first time I can recall NOT seeing any adds in accuweathers website after clicking on local weather details from the fancy widgets app
To bad had to throw the big tin can into the trash heap
but am I SOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Glad that I did
Am now using AdAway and it's the first time I can recall NOT seeing any adds in accuweathers website after clicking on local weather details from the fancy widgets app
I think adfree has better methods of using personalised white or black lists. The hostfile after adfree is nearly 950 kb whereas after merging in adaway it reduces to 700 kb. Staying with adfree since it blocks ads on my inc s better. Just my 2 cents worth, ymmv.
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA
Maybe a stupid question but is there a faq somewhere? Some explanation about the app and what everything do. What's the benefit to register? And what does "Show TCMdump screen" means?
The newly updated adfree does not work here. It loops continually tring to check the hosts file. It might be a rom issue since neither the nslookup or wget commands work correctly from adb shell (same commands work on my pc and the phone was connected to my wifi with no proxies required).
Phone is an evo 3d gsm x-off with a rom based on the leaked ics build 3.27.401.2 using supersu for root (with adfree authorized)
ideas?
Phone is an evo 3d gsm x-off with a rom based on the leaked ics build 3.27.401.2 using supersu for root (with adfree authorized)
ideas?
I did, sorry if this tripped any one up, but we've changed IPs for the lists and didn't want people using old IPs that didn't work any more.
other websites to add
I have additional websites I need to add. I can of course add them to the hosts file myself but my question is will my additions be overwritten whenever adfree updates the host file or will adfree just apend the updates?
The sites I need to add are:
kuad2.kusogi.com (newsbook)
kuad.kusogi.com (newsbook)
www.umeng.com (Boat browser)
I have additional websites I need to add. I can of course add them to the hosts file myself but my question is will my additions be overwritten whenever adfree updates the host file or will adfree just apend the updates?
The sites I need to add are:
kuad2.kusogi.com (newsbook)
kuad.kusogi.com (newsbook)
www.umeng.com (Boat browser)
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It is the biggest (only ?) problem with this app. You can't add hostname yourself.
And, yes, your updates will be erased at the next update.
AdAway keeps your white and black lists on your phone. They even come back after flashing a new ROM and restoring apps with Titanium Backup.
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21You can find the latest version of this app on the slideme app store.
http://slideme.org/application/adfree
This is the old thread, I started a new thread in the general section => http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40759351
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Spoiled by ad free browsing on my normal desktop computer it became increasingly annoying seeing all the ads on my phone. However it's really easy to make them disappear, although you most likely will need root on the phone.
Download the hosts.txt file from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt, you may need to run dos2unix over the file to remote \r characters, rename the file hosts and copy it to /system/etc on your phone and say goodbye to most ads.
You may find the list to be imperfect, for example some feedburner URLs are "blocked" as a result which can screw with RSS feeds, although it's annoying giving too much info to Google but like everything else in life some things are a trade off.
If you want to root your phone, try this article.7
I've been dreading this day since my hdd was wiped a while back, I've uploaded a new version using a new signing key 0.8.45, but you'll need to remove the current version first.6
I was uploading to slideme.org until I had issues with old signing keys being lost.
For people wanting the current version I uploaded the apk file to the website: http://adfree.bigtincan.com/adfree.apk5new Ad blocker
Hi folks,
I have released my own hosts-based ad blocker named AdAway, it can be found on the market with the following features:
- AdAway is Open Source
- AdAway lets you select your own sources of hosts files
- You can add exceptions to your Whitelist if some apps are not working with ads disabled
- You can define extra hostnames in your own Blacklist
Market: market.android.com/details?id=org.adaway
Website: code.google.com/p/ad-away
Source: gitorious.org/adaway
I would like to hear suggestions and ideas for possible future releases. Please look into the Issue tracker before and add your suggestions there: code.google.com/p/ad-away/issues/list5Here, a quick edit of the host file to fix the Words with Friends and Medscape. Just copy and paste it into "/system/etc" and overwrite the host file or wherever your host file is located.
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?mda7sx9eovfkh03
If you wanna do this yourself, use a text editor like Notepad++ and just remove any references to server that's being overlayed in Words With Friends and any references to Medscape.
