Introduction
Hello, all!
I'd like to present you Umbrella for Android. It is a tool designed to make web surfing of Android users more comfortable and safe.
Umbrella - protecting your mobile device from all advertising, viruses, malicious sites and web-tracking.
ROOT not required!
Features:
- Block all advertising
- Blocking the loading of applications from third-party sources
- Block out sites distributing malicious content
- Block out fraudulent sites
- Firewall
- Be informed about visiting premium (paid) sites
- Protect from surveillance (banners, tracking, social networks, etc)
- Hide the user identifying information
- Enhanced privacy mode
- Speeding up the Internet
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Installation
Umbrella on Amazon
Umbrella on Google Play
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Did this app work on Lolipop and above?
Thanks!
Good solution to combine multiple tasks into one program.
gloomdemon said:
Did this app work on Lolipop and above?
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Yes, app supports any Android version starting from Android 4.0.3
Vladyslav Patkevych said:
Good solution to combine multiple tasks into one program.
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Thank you very much! We will try to make our app even better.
Ad blocks are implemented by monitoring my traffic via ur VPN? and IP tables for firewall, right?
Thank you for this powerful yet simple app.
Here are my suggestions:
1. Since you have promoted "umbrella" at XDA, I hope you could add extra features for root user.
2. The "internet for browsers only" in firewall setting offers too little explanation and although I understand it, I couldn't find out the pop out explanation again after closed for the first time.
3. There are no such interface for antivirus and surveillance protection.
4. Your app does work but it doesnt look attractive. I believe the way you design your app interface is equally important in developing the features.
I believe this app will attract more user in very near future. All the best!
scorpienez said:
Ad blocks are implemented by monitoring my traffic via ur VPN? and IP tables for firewall, right?
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In the app used only local VPN, IP tables no used.
Which hosts are you using?
"Block all advertising" => How can you be 100% sure? Even YouTube videos that are monetized?
Looks promising but to little settings. A protocol would also be nice.
Its like an alternative to NetGuard.
Related
Recently, I found that the "Android System Info" app below is using Flurry Agent to send data / report via 3G/internet whenever I start using it. At least, it came out in the logging.
Do you know any alternative that does not use Flurry Agent?
I hate that thing because it uses 3G/internet and it cannot be disabled
I know Astrid is using Flurry Agent as well, but it can be disabled.
Android System Info
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i believe that is for the download of the ADs to sustain their income & development
use Adfree perhpas?
Well, I think that is not ads ... Ads should be the AdMob SDK or something in the logging.
Flurry Agent is about analytic:
http://www.flurry.com/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=673146
To be honest, I don't mind with ads ... Especially if that can support the dev and the app is good.
But, I don't like sending usage pattern, statistical data, usage analysis, that kind of things.
AllGamer said:
i believe that is for the download of the ADs to sustain their income & development
use Adfree perhpas?
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Many devs find analytics to be important information to them.
You could edit your hosts file manually to block any flurry.com urls...
Not rooted, you cant do that.
Good developer will add an option to disable this, like Astrid.
distortedloop said:
Many devs find analytics to be important information to them.
You could edit your hosts file manually to block any flurry.com urls...
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gogol said:
Not rooted, you cant do that.
Good developer will add an option to disable this, like Astrid.
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Your last sentence doesn't quite sit right for some reason, but I agree overall.
Something in the back of my mind tells me there's a revenue stream to the developers who include this. Like flurry pays them a royalty for data collected. That needs confirmation, but while many devs put stuff out for the love of the device, many more need to get some income off the app to stay interested in developing/maintaining it. We all want "free" apps, but we're going to have to get used to either paying up in cash, or paying up in seeing ads, or paying up by having some analytics collected on us.
I don't want my phone spied on either. Best thing you can do is uninstall the apps that spy on you without the feature to turn it off, give the app a 1-star rating on the market, and leave a comment that it collects analytics on you and you don't like that. Kind of lousy thing to do an app that's otherwise top-notch. If enough people uninstall and bad rate these apps, the devs will get the hint and stop doing it.
As for not rooted, there's no reason not to root the Nexus S. There are hundreds of reason to root, though. Blocking ads and spyware is just one of them.
You don't even have to unlock the bootloader to do it, easy instructions here; no loss of data with that method.
Hi XDA,
So I've have my Milestone 2 for two days and installed only a handful of apps from the Market.
However I just noticed my data usage is ~350MB with most of that usage from "Gallery" - as listed in Data Manager in Settings.
Looking in the Gallery app and there were about 6 images of chinese characters from websites like sina.cn that I didn't put there.
And their creation date was from a day ago at 4:34am :/
Any ideas and/or suggestions?
Thanks!
PS: Stuffed up original thread; this is not "[Resolved]"
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Can anyone shed any light or advice?
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Can someone suggest somewhere else this might be better asked if this is not the ideal place (Questions & Answers)?
Firewall your phone
Firewall your phone;
Airscanner Mobile Firewall
A Full-Strength Personal Firewall for Your Windows Mobile/Pocket PC handheld. Airscanner Mobile Firewall for Windows Mobile Pocket PC is a low-level, bi- directional, packet filtering firewall that examines all incoming and outgoing TCP/IP traffic. This personal firewall ensures that data is permitted based on access control lists that you select from a set of predefined filters, or from filters that you create yourself. The firewall parses packets as they come in (or go out) on the wire or over the air, and it matches the data against a rule set of ports and IP addresses, URLs, etc. Unlike some other products, Airscanner Mobile Firewall is not a simple port blocker or application port monitor. It is a true, full strength NDIS firewall powered by a custom-written packet driver for Windows CE .NET.
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Q: What is this kind of picture?
A: It's a 2D barcode.
In general, 2D barcodes can encode more data than 1D barcodes of the same size and can encode the same amount of data in much less space.
Q: How can I use this picture on my phone?
A: Go to i-nigma.mobi on your mobile. I-nigma will automatically identify your handset type, download and install i-nigma. Replace .mobi with .com to goto their main website for more info
Hope this helps,
A Full-Strength Personal Firewall for Your Windows Mobile/Pocket PC handheld.
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Until now I was sure that a Milestone 2 is running Android.
cobo_, search the market for droidwall or similar. I don't think that it has same features as Win products but maybe it's useful for you to avoid such things in the future. For your actual request: sorry, no clue.
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Until now I was sure that a Milestone 2 is running Android.
cobo_, search the market for droidwall or similar. I don't think that it has same features as Win products but maybe it's useful for you to avoid such things in the future. For your actual request: sorry, no clue.
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Thanks stepsch, I had no idea there were firewall-type apps for Android
I'll definately give DroidWall a look at.
AD Blocker
Requirements: Android 1.5+
Overview: Auto block embed AD of preselected apps and games.
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AD Blocker enable you to block the embedded advertisement of Android apps and games. If you don't like AD and would never click them, or want to avoid your children seeing adult AD when they playing game. This tool can help you.
How it works
When you open the app you specified, it will auto turn off the Internet connection, so the app can't fill any AD in it. The Internet connection will be auto restored when you exit the app.
Notice:
It can't block the AD for the app really need network, such like mail, browser. If you block them, they won't work at all.
Download:
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.xdevelop.adblocker_t
Web Site:
http://smartdogstudio.blogspot.com/p/ad-blocker-user-guide.html
Oh man, "turn off the Internet Connection" will be affect to other apps. Not a good solution for Ads.
duongtunglam said:
Oh man, "turn off the Internet Connection" will be affect to other apps. Not a good solution for Ads.
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For non-rooted phone, the only way to block AD is to turn off the internet connection. It will be auto restored when you exit the preselected app, so it won't affect too much.
what about a rooted phone??
how does it work there???
JohnstonF said:
what about a rooted phone??
how does it work there???
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Rooted phone means you have root user privilege of your phone, you need refresh your rom or crack it by some tools.
For rooted phones, you can change the host file to block all AD sites. But normal phones don't allow app to change it. So the only way is auto disable the internet connection.
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what about a rooted phone??
how does it work there???
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rooted phone you can use adfree or a similar app, adfree seems to be the most popular.
snakeeyes21 said:
rooted phone you can use adfree or a similar app, adfree seems to be the most popular.
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Yes, adfree is the most popular for rooted phone, but most normal users don't have a rooted phone, so AD blocker is a good choice for non-rooted phone.
What about if the app your using NEEDS internet permissions?
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What about if the app your using NEEDS internet permissions?
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So it can't block the ad for the app really need works with intenret permission. Such as Browser, chat, mail, etc. It mainly for the most games that don't need play online.
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to share with you what we've been working on and released finally yesterday to the store. Will always be FREE and WITHOUT ADS.
Securacy is the first mobile network data application exposer. This software allows you to pinpoint exactly which applications are breaking your concerns in terms of permissions, to where the application talks and if that connection was established over a secure protocol.
Do you want:
- To know what your applications are doing without you knowing?
- To know where your applications are sending data?
- To know how safe is your application?
- To voice your privacy and security concerns?
- To notify others of potential security and privacy invasive applications?
Then this application is for YOU!
=== Data statement ===
Securacy does not collect any personal data. The only data it collects is:
- Your explicit ratings and concerns;
- The applications you use, install, remove and update (to notify you of securacy concerns);
- The details of the network connections that your applications use to send/receive data. This only includes the IP addresses of the servers, and the ports used by the connection. No other data is collected about network connections.
You can find it on the store
Let me know if you have more ideas for it, we are still developing it!
Cheers!
Some screenshots of the application:
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this app made my phone freaking slow! it just keep popping to start the accessibility service though it's on.app crashed when click to show,& app is really slow!log attached.
Sorry to hear that. I took a look at the logcat but it doesn't give me much to go on.
Can you tell me what device are you using, Android version, is it a custom ROM, do you have Google Services installed (it's required for the GMaps)? My guess is that for some reason your device is not returning the list of active accessibility services correctly or at all. If that is the case, then it's better for you to not use it, unfortunately.
Thanks!
killoid said:
this app made my phone freaking slow! it just keep popping to start the accessibility service though it's on.app crashed when click to show,& app is really slow!log attached.
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dferreira said:
Sorry to hear that. I took a look at the logcat but it doesn't give me much to go on.
Can you tell me what device are you using, Android version, is it a custom ROM, do you have Google Services installed (it's required for the GMaps)? My guess is that for some reason your device is not returning the list of active accessibility services correctly or at all. If that is the case, then it's better for you to not use it, unfortunately.
Thanks!
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my bad! i've not installed google play services on my device,so it's useless for me.
No problem
Cheers
killoid said:
my bad! i've not installed google play services on my device,so it's useless for me.
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Can we make it so that us ppl who's privacy is deeper can use it I myself don't run any Google apps or gapps package
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also would you mind posting app here
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Hi community.
Just stopping by to inform you, that the app/tool personalHTTPproxy has a new home.
New releases will come soon.
What is personalHTTPproxy?
It is a tool for Java enabled devices and an Android app that can filter all your HTTP traffic to block ads - no root needed.
The app/tool is open source software and is free of charge. No paid extended or premium version.
Check out
http://personalHTTPproxy.org
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Downloaded, now i'm testing it, thank you
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Adblocking runs good for any Browser used on Android, but we are facing problems when it comes to block ads in apps.
This is caused by ads that just bypass the HTTP(s) proxy to download the ads from Google AdMob and other Google ad services.
There are apps (and this is as it's oughta be) that respect the proxy settings and the ad filtering is done right.
And there are apps that just ignore the proxy settings to fetch the ads from various hosts.
Without a VPN, a real global proxy (root) or messing with iptables on a rooted phone or the hosts file itself (using another app) those ads can not be blocked.
Nice app , will try it
I will give this application a try, thank you for throwing this information out here on the world wide web!
Hey.
Ingo Zenz got some new stuff!
Check out personalDNSfilter. Works even better than personalHTTPproxy - no root, VPN, blocks ads in apps and browsers ... system-wide!
http://zenz-solutions.de/personaldnsfilter/
How can I add new hosts in personal dns filter?
I tried to go to hosts-file.net but I don't understand what I have to do and what I have to download.
Mattiapk said:
How can I add new hosts in personal dns filter?
I tried to go to hosts-file.net but I don't understand what I have to do and what I have to download.
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Sir, sorry for the late reply.
For further requests please see this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-personaldnsfilter-block-malware-t3567898
And please update to the latest version of pDNSf.
for support and manual usage, please join our group on TG
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