How to filter ads on your G1

[AAccount]

not seeing any ads in google maps. where are they supposed to be?

See the screenshot. It seems more likely to show up for vague searches. I just put in "electronics store". I am using the latest hosts file with my angry birds addition. You can see it on a previous post. If I just need to clear some cache that would be great but the "electronics store" search I did for this screenshot is the first time I've ever done it. I have google maps 5.7.0.

 

[XlAfbk]

not getting those. am not in the us though

 

[creeve4]

are you sure you've got the file linked properly? owner should be set to 0 (root) and permissions 666

How do you set ownership on a file?

 

[XlAfbk]

chown, chmod or use Root Explorer (dunno about other file managers)

 

[creeve4]

chown, chmod or use Root Explorer (dunno about other file managers)

I've tried Root Explorer, I can set permissions, but I can't find where/how to set ownership

 

[SubMatrix]

I've tried Root Explorer, I can set permissions, but I can't find where/how to set ownership

should be at the bottom if you long press on the file. Scroll all the way down.

 

[XlAfbk]

or use this script to create the symlink and set proper permissions and owner on the file. run as root of course

#!/system/xbin/sh
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o rw,remount /system
ln -s /data/data/hosts /system/etc/hosts
chown 0:0 /system/etc/hosts
chmod 644 /system/etc/hosts
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o ro,remount /system

 

[creeve4]

should be at the bottom if you long press on the file. Scroll all the way down.

Here are all the options available when I long press on hosts.

Nothing for ownership:

 

[XlAfbk]

uhm, as you can see from the scrollbar that's not all the way down. there's 2 more menu items: create tar and change owner

 

[creeve4]

uhm, as you can see from the scrollbar that's not all the way down. there's 2 more menu items: create tar and change owner

I'm using Root Explorer 2.14.2

I did miss the create TAR, but there is no change owner:

 

[XlAfbk]

you're using an outdated version of RE (which probably means you warezd it from the net...)

 

[creeve4]

you're using an outdated version of RE (which probably means you warezd it from the net...)

Yep, usenet

 

[Crox]

are you sure these ads aren't cached ones? just delete everything in /data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds but the 2 .lua files in files, similar for rio and seasons, also keep the "lib" folder there

I tried this too - but it won't work. If I use AB 1.5.3 there's no ad, with the new version ad appears. At the moment I went back to 1.5.3 by Titanium Backup. Why can't Adfree block ad in the new Version of Angry Birds and some other Apps?

 

[roccoadam32]

I tried this too - but it won't work. If I use AB 1.5.3 there's no ad, with the new version ad appears. At the moment I went back to 1.5.3 by Titanium Backup. Why can't Adfree block ad in the new Version of Angry Birds and some other Apps?

some newer android markets have a setting in the menu to get interest based adds i would check and see if this is checked in your market

 

[filou75]

are you sure these ads aren't cached ones? just delete everything in /data/data/com.rovio.angrybirds but the 2 .lua files in files, similar for rio and seasons, also keep the "lib" folder there

Yes ! I can play without ads, thanks

 

[Sergey2011]

Doesn't work with Battery Monitor Windget v.1.7.1. When you open BMW ad is shown and popup saying 'Please disable your adblocker before using this application' is displayed.

 

[XlAfbk]

It works just fine with BMW. Just that BMW checks for the existance of ad blocking hosts file. It works just fine though.

 

[Helgaiden]

Broke my MMA News (by sempixel) RSS reader app. Not sure how to fix it. Uninstalling didn't help, reinstalling and clicking 'revert' didn't help. Not sure what to do...

 

[Sergey2011]

It works just fine with BMW. Just that BMW checks for the existance of ad blocking hosts file. It works just fine though.

What version of blocker and BMW do you use?

 

[XlAfbk]

What version of blocker and BMW do you use?

latest. BMW says "please disable ad blocker" but works just fine, showing the default ad