How to filter ads on your G1

AAccount

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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.
 

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XlAfbk

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

XlAfbk

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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
 

Crox

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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

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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
 

Sergey2011

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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

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

Helgaiden

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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...