Ad Blocker?

[PJcastaldo]

I have become accustomed to not seeing ads through out the user experience. I was using a flashable ad blocker from the N5 thread but I guess its not 5.0 compatible.. You guys have any suggestions.

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[Sinker1345]

Adaway apk has worked on lollipop with my n5 (n6 is being delivered soon). I just wish I could find something for you tube now.

 

[PJcastaldo]

Where is adaway available for download? Yeah I agree I watch a lot of YouTube and I used to have an Xposed module that blocked all add in the app, it was sweet.

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[akellar]

Where is adaway available for download? Yeah I agree I watch a lot of YouTube and I used to have an Xposed module that blocked all add in the app, it was sweet.

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Google.com

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[simms22]

adfree works great http://adfree.bigtincan.com/adfree.apk

 

[supasanch24]

adfree works great http://adfree.bigtincan.com/adfree.apk

Does it require root?

 

[kelmar13]

Does it require root?

Yes, it requires root.

Chalk up another one for this one. It's my go-to.

 

[PJcastaldo]

Thanks guys. Adfree works great.

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[PaisanNYC]

Huh? AdAway is working for me. I downloaded it from f-droid. I just ran an Ookla Speedtest and no ads came up

 

[zephiK]

I prefer using https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway ... AdFree is nice but blocks a lot of the Slickdeals links for me, yeah theres whitelisting but Slickdeals has a lot of redirecting links whereas AdAway is less aggressive on that part and gets most of the ads.

I see @simms22 finally got his N6

 

[xoulu]

I use adaway on my N6 and it works great.

 

[PDP///M]

Anyway to block youtube app ads? I used to use xposed module for this, but...

 

[mk92595]

Anybody else having problems with the whitelist? Viglink redirects always fail when adaway is active

 

[aoaleman]

Anybody else having problems with the whitelist? Viglink redirects always fail when adaway is active

Works fine here.

Whitelist *.viglink.com

 

[Cheater912]

There used to be this great xposed module that removed the ad spaces in apps. I really hope that comes to L somehow.

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[franatic08]

Anybody else having problems with the whitelist? Viglink redirects always fail when adaway is active

It's the redirects we need to get rid of [emoji57]

 

[mk92595]

It's the redirects we need to get rid of [emoji57]

Can't open any link on Tapatalk because of it

 

[zephiK]

Can't open any link on Tapatalk because of it

Whitelist redirect.viglink.com on AdAway then reapply the list.

 

[PewPewK]

Out of curiosity, can you run an adblocker (like adaway), have it modify the hostfile, then unroot and still have ads blocked? Or do you need to keep root for the changes to remain in effect?

 

[cupfulloflol]

Out of curiosity, can you run an adblocker (like adaway), have it modify the hostfile, then unroot and still have ads blocked? Or do you need to keep root for the changes to remain in effect?

You can unroot after making the change. You would have to re-root to update or modify the hosts file again.