Hi.
For a while I've been using the AdAway adblocker to stop ads in an app.
It used to work fine for something like a year or longer but lately,
suddenly the ads are back, despite having AdAway running.

I don't mind banner ads, but I really hate it when they force you to
watch an ad before you're allowed to proceed using the app.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Kind regards and thanks in advance for any feedback on this issue.

sobriquet wrote on Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:18:28 +0200 :

> I don't mind banner ads, but I really hate it when they force you to
> watch an ad before you're allowed to proceed using the app.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this?

Unfortunately, much as I'd like to help, I don't know anything about AdAway
other than links to the software and forums to ask detailed questions of.
<https://xdaforums.com/t/app-root-nonroot-official-adaway-v6-1-1.2190753/>
<https://app.adaway.org/adaway.apk>
<https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway/releases>
<https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.adaway/>

So I'll let others respond to the AdAway portion of the issue, but may I
ask if you're using an ad-blocking DNS &/or system-wide ad blockers?

DNS Based Ad Blocking
<https://i.postimg.cc/fbRT9XCf/adblock-privatedns.jpg>

System Wide Ad Blocking
<https://i.postimg.cc/VsVsbd0j/adblock-rethinknetguard.jpg>

The main reason I ask is I haven't seen an ad on my Android phone in, oh, I
don't know how long - but it could be years and I use it daily on the net.

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:18:28 +0200, sobriquet <dohduhdah@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi.
>For a while I've been using the AdAway adblocker to stop ads in an app.
>It used to work fine for something like a year or longer but lately,
>suddenly the ads are back, despite having AdAway running.
>I don't mind banner ads, but I really hate it when they force you to
>watch an ad before you're allowed to proceed using the app.
>Does anyone know how to fix this?
>Kind regards and thanks in advance for any feedback on this issue.

never used it, but it appears to be quite popular . . .

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>Android Android 8 Oreo or above After preview builds have been tested by
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>post the stable build to F-Droid. For devices older than Android 8 Oreo ,
>use the version 4 of AdAway.
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>You can get good question/response support from the AdAway XDA Thread.
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>it is truly an AdAway issue OR something new to enhance AdAway, then
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