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How to have Adaway without root

I'm really trying to hold off unlocking the bootloader and rooting my pixel because I love Android pay. But the ads are a pain in the ass and is sleeping down my user experience. Is there anyway to achieve having ad block without root to not lose AP function?

Give Adguard a try. It doesn't need root, works using VPN and works pretty good. I hate ads, not sure how anyone puts up with crap.

DNS66 has been working great for me.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-dns66-source-host-ad-blocker-root-t3487497

krelvinaz said:
Give Adguard a try. It doesn't need root, works using VPN and works pretty good. I hate ads, not sure how anyone puts up with crap.
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I too recommend AdGuard, their DNS filtering has been working fantastically.

Use hosts go and the source files from my bphf thread for most protection

In pretty sure if you unlock your bootloader and flash magisk it shouldn't trip safety net so you'll still be able to use android pay

shagbag913 said:
In pretty sure if you unlock your bootloader and flash magisk it shouldn't trip safety net so you'll still be able to use android pay
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It does. I can't use latest android pay with magisk 16.0. It used to work but no longer. Not for me anyway.

I havent updated to Magisk v16 yet, but on 15.3 i can use google pay and pokemon go

Under magisk settings, disable then reenable magisk hide and seek if that works. If not check the magisk hide tab and make sure android pay is ticked

Adguard is the best
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I too recommend AdGuard, their DNS filtering has been working fantastically.
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After years of getting used to root and Adaway, I felt orphaned, and after testing DNS66, Adblocker Plus, StopAd among others, I discovered AdGuard that I already knew as Opera addon ... It really is fantastic !!!

herguim said:
After years of getting used to root and Adaway, I felt orphaned, and after testing DNS66, Adblocker Plus, StopAd among others, I discovered AdGuard that I already knew as Opera addon ... It really is fantastic !!!
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Is this the one you guys referring to?
https://adguard.com/en/download.html
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If you are on Android 10, use Adguard DNS:
DNS-over-TLS: dns.adguard.com (Default) or dns-family.adguard.com (Family Protection)
Put in Private DNS settings.

Just use DNS override setting in Pie and newer versions. Set it to dns.adguard.com that's it. No need to tinker with hosts, root or install some app.s

Adguard seems to cause app freezes a bit.
Say you're in an app and you press the home button, the phone freezes for a bit. Has this happened to you guys?
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pritzzy said:
Adguard seems to cause app freezes a bit.
Say you're in an app and you press the home button, the phone freezes for a bit. Has this happened to you guys?
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any luck? I find adguard uses our phones proxy setting. so all browsing on google chrome and stuff goes slower through proxy, I can't live with that slow sometimes when it's already slow lol. what do you do?

entwicklun said:
any luck? I find adguard uses our phones proxy setting. so all browsing on google chrome and stuff goes slower through proxy, I can't live with that slow sometimes when it's already slow lol. what do you do?
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I've shifted to blokada. You can find it in fdroid app store. Works flawlessly, no lags, no battery drain, open source and has a very light footprint. Go for it [emoji106]
Blokada v4 (ad blocker) (The ad blocker - battery efficient, fast, powerful and simple to use) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.blokada.alarm
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ads blocker

Is there any way to block ads on youtube and chorme without root?!

So far, no adblocker app works without root.
The only browser that has adblocker is opera mini, try it.

You can block ads without root using Blokada (vpn based ad blocker) https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-blokada-fire-forget-root-ad-blocker-t3503374 . It doesn't block ads within youtube but you can find modified youtube app version in the apps&games section here on xda. Here https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-iytbp-injected-youtube-background-t3560900 Look at the third post for non root version

Giving the fact it is VPN based, I won't use it due to some laws in my country.

PalakMi said:
Giving the fact it is VPN based, I won't use it due to some laws in my country.
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As far as i know, it's a local vpn only running on your smartphone ( not through internet). Maybe it's compliant with the law of your country.

stephtban said:
As far as i know, it's a local vpn only running on your smartphone ( not through internet). Maybe it's compliant with the law of your country.
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I'll look into it

PalakMi said:
I'll look into it
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There's also dns66 which does not need root.
It's available in fdroid
That's why honor 8 is the first phone I didn't root

pix106 said:
There's also dns66 which does not need root.
It's available in fdroid
That's why honor 8 is the first phone I didn't root
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Ok, I'll take a look

Also adskip for YouTube.

Can't make adway work.

Hello xda users.. today im facing a big problem..
I have op6 with rooted (magisk installed). oos 9.02
Ive installed latest adway 4.0.11. Everything works fine (adway gets permisions.. etc). But he does not stop the ads.
In magisk i have ticked systemless hosts same for adway in prefs. What i am doing wrong?
I am missing something?

zubyro said:
What i am doing wrong?
I am missing something?
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I haven't routed a phone for a few years now but I seem to remember Adaway wrote its hosts file to the system partition. And isn't it the way of Magisk to not write anything to system?
I use Adguard directly from Adguard.com. It just works, (apart from the odd time Oneplus closes it ,) and I ALWAYS have Google Pay working too - so no hassle at checkouts.

Ended up using dns66.. cant make adway to work..

zubyro said:
Ended up using dns66.. cant make adway to work..
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I have Adaway running on my rooted OP 6, but I'm not using that systemless switch you mentioned...

zubyro said:
Ended up using dns66.. cant make adway to work..
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Use AdAway v3.3. I have it working perfectly fine.

croques said:
I haven't routed a phone for a few years now but I seem to remember Adaway wrote its hosts file to the system partition. And isn't it the way of Magisk to not write anything to system?
I use Adguard directly from Adguard.com. It just works, (apart from the odd time Oneplus closes it ,) and I ALWAYS have Google Pay working too - so no hassle at checkouts.
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I agree with you. Adaway just doesn't do anything for me. Adguard just works, and it works very well.

On unrooted phones, the VPN adapter is used to reroute traffic. As I use a normal VPN permanently to prohibit carrier deep packet inspection, any adblocker relying on the VPN approach is a nogo for me as Android only supports one VPN connection at a time.

akxak said:
On unrooted phones, the VPN adapter is used to reroute traffic. As I use a normal VPN permanently to prohibit carrier deep packet inspection, any adblocker relying on the VPN approach is a nogo for me as Android only supports one VPN connection at a time.
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I agree with you totally. I would much prefer your way of a permanent VPN and to block ads some other way.. However,
I need Google Pay to work all the time and not be in an arms race with Google;
I need to block ads;
I need a VPN that always has good connection speeds for downloads and not just a high burst speed for a few seconds..
That little list just won't work together. And that last point seems impossible to achieve - certainly with the many VPN services I've tried. I'm currently using Mullvad when I need security but cannot recommend it for speed

I use an OP6 with Android 9, OOS 9.0.1 routed with Madison 17.2
I have Google Pay, Adaway and my permanent VPN with OpenVPN.
I use NordVPN for which I pay but it's reliable and fast, allows multiple connections from my home router and my mobile.
Reliable and without any problems.

akxak said:
On unrooted phones, the VPN adapter is used to reroute traffic. As I use a normal VPN permanently to prohibit carrier deep packet inspection, any adblocker relying on the VPN approach is a nogo for me as Android only supports one VPN connection at a time.
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Adguard works both in vpn or in proxy mode. But for proxy mode, root is required. Using Adguard for an year ans its always my fav adblocker.

If you're using Magisk, both Magisk and Adaway need to be set to systemless via the settings in each application.
For some reason Adaway 4.x just ignore the restart warning and then just press check for updates again and it'll start properly downloading the host files.

My Adaway has the systemless setting grayed out and not ticked. I'm using Adaway 3.3 from F-Droid which is the latest version, there's no version 4. It's not available on Google Play.

akxak said:
I use NordVPN for which I pay but it's reliable and fast, allows multiple connections from my home router and my mobile.
Reliable and without any problems.
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Well and good for you. TrustPilot (UK) gives them only 5.8/10. There are some good and bad comments - as to be expected -but this is recent post. It chimes with my own experiences of paid VPN - more promises than delivery.
Extremely slow server
Extremely slow servers. Absolutely horrible app. They make it next to impossible to select a specific server you've used in the past and instead give you an unsorted list of thousands of servers to manually scroll through and try to find the one you want. You can search for a server but if you do it this way you can't add it to favourites.
They advertise as fast for p2p, yet my speeds are the slowest I've ever experienced with a VPN, including those lousy free vpn.
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I'm aware this is off-topic for Adaway; apologies to OP for possible thread hi-jacking; but if you are in to ad-blocking the next step is VPN

I use the app OpenVPN which gives me more control, speed of servers vary but I am satisfied.

[HOW TO][NO-ROOT] Blocking ads without additional software in Android 9.0 Pie

The next method allows us to block ads in Android without to installing any additional software. It's working on any android device working with Android 9 Pie and above. ​
How to do it:
Go to Settings => Connections => More connection settings => Private DNS.
Check Private DNS provider hostname
Then you can use some of the rest. The first one is recommended.
dns.adguard.com
dns-family.adguard.com
dot-de.blahdns.com
Another DNS that you can check is NextDNS. It's free to use and provide some nice features on their website.
How to block ads in Google Chrome
The DNS method works also for Google Chrome, but you need to change something to make it work. ​
Open Chrome, type in chrome://flags
Then search for async DNS resolver (#enable-async-dns) and choose disabled in the drop-down menu. Otherwise, chrome could use a built-in DNS resolver which does not block ads.
Source: Reddit

wow, thanks

So it works only in Pie or will it work in Oreo also?

bocondo said:
So it works only in Pie or will it work in Oreo also?
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Only for Pie.

Thanks, I have a questions
1. can i choose only one dns address?
2. in chrome i should choose enable or disable?

gtrs36 said:
Thanks, I have a questions
1. can i choose only one dns address?
2. in chrome i should choose enable or disable?
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1. Yes
2. Disabled

Cheers for this it works great.

Try Blokada. Does even more. My personal tip.

I dont understand this one? System wide ads?

Enable private DNS on MIUI 10 android pie.

Hi guys.
I'm new to pocophone F1. Coming from a galaxy note 3 with aosp pie rom, i found that i cannot use private dns on pocophone miui 10 pie rom. Several articles on the net said it was removed from miui pie rom. The truth is it was hidden deep within miui 10.
Here's how to access it:
1. Install quick shortcut maker from playstore. Here's the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sika524.android.quickshortcut
2. Open quick shortcut maker and then scroll to settings. Click on it and then find com.android.settings.Settings$NetworkDashboardActivity (also easier to find it by typing "mor" on search bar. Click on it and then choose try, it will go to network and internet settings where you now can set private DNS there. You can create a shortcut for later use after that.

Thanks. Any code/keyword to enable WiFi sharing (e.g. share WiFi from hotspot using phone with no mobile phone signal)- it is a feature in pixel but not available in miui

radii said:
Thanks. Any code/keyword to enable WiFi sharing (e.g. share WiFi from hotspot using phone with no mobile phone signal)- it is a feature in pixel but not available in miui
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Not this one?

stonedead said:
Not this one?
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the option is turned on for me but does not allow wi-fi sharing or doesn't work for me does it work for you? I I've tried

radii said:
the option is turned on for me but does not allow wi-fi sharing or doesn't work for me does it work for you? I I've tried
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Never tried it before, will test it once i get home later today.

stonedead said:
Hi guys.
I'm new to pocophone F1. Coming from a galaxy note 3 with aosp pie rom, i found that i cannot use private dns on pocophone miui 10 pie rom. Several articles on the net said it was removed from miui pie rom. The truth is it was hidden deep within miui 10.
Here's how to access it:
1. Install quick shortcut maker from playstore. Here's the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sika524.android.quickshortcut
2. Open quick shortcut maker and then scroll to settings. Click on it and then find com.android.settings.Settings$NetworkDashboardActivity (also easier to find it by typing "mor" on search bar. Click on it and then choose try, it will go to network and internet settings where you now can set private DNS there. You can create a shortcut for later use after that.
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Good finding!!!

If you want to use the 1.1.1.1 private DNS from CloudFlare, you can just get the 1.1.1.1 app which does it for you

donk165 said:
If you want to use the 1.1.1.1 private DNS from CloudFlare, you can just get the 1.1.1.1 app which does it for you
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It's not the same mate. Private dns in pie use DNS over TLS which is encrypted and more secure. Also you can use adguard dns in private dns to block ads so you don't need to use any adblocker app or even root your device to block ads system wide. To use adguard dns just put dns.adguard.com to that private dns.

stonedead said:
It's not the same mate. Private dns in pie use DNS over TLS which is encrypted and more secure. Also you can use adguard dns in private dns to block ads so you don't need to use any adblocker app or even root your device to block ads system wide. To use adguard dns just put dns.adguard.com to that private dns.
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Yeah that is true. Its a shame that MIUI doesnt allow you to set the private DNS settings. Im on crdroid so I can set the dns without any issues. Hopefully they patch it in

donk165 said:
Yeah that is true. Its a shame that MIUI doesnt allow you to set the private DNS settings. Im on crdroid so I can set the dns without any issues. Hopefully they patch it in
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Using the method i posted here works fine on miui 10.

radii said:
the option is turned on for me but does not allow wi-fi sharing or doesn't work for me does it work for you? I I've tried
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It seems to work fine for me. I did not enable the setting in developer option. Took out my sim card and then connect to other phone, check from other phone and confirmed the internet is working fine on on both phones.

The third icon from your screen shot is missing on my pocophone, I'll consider factory reset

donk165 said:
If you want to use the 1.1.1.1 private DNS from CloudFlare, you can just get the 1.1.1.1 app which does it for you
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Private DNS on setting on any PIE AOSP or any PIE Roms is systemwide.
The app itself only the application is affected and by using vpn.
The app is useless if you have the settings available on your device.

On xiaomi.eu when i press DNS the settings app crashes so i cannot set it.

Thanks, works fine here. But seems like I can't connect to internet when using CloudFare dns so I changed to Adguard and it works fine. Both wifi and data has no connection after connecting to CloudFare dns. Btw good sharing!

I'm on crDroid so the private DNS settings work fine for me I've attached a screenshot of the settings I'm using, might be helpful if that menu is available on your ROM

Forgot to attach

Hi...
if i already change to private dns... Will it stick after restart device?
and why i cannot create a shortcut to that setting. ?
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MFAR198 said:
Thanks, works fine here. But seems like I can't connect to internet when using CloudFare dns so I changed to Adguard and it works fine. Both wifi and data has no connection after connecting to CloudFare dns. Btw good sharing!
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That's cause it's cloudflare not cloudfare.
1dot1dot1dot1.cloudlfare-dns.com

Negi9 said:
That's cause it's cloudflare not cloudfare.
1dot1dot1dot1.cloudlfare-dns.com
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Yeah, my bad. Forgot the 'l'. Like missing a semicolon in a coding ?