I have become accustomed to not seeing ads through out the user experience. I was using a flashable ad blocker from the N5 thread but I guess its not 5.0 compatible.. You guys have any suggestions.
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Adaway apk has worked on lollipop with my n5 (n6 is being delivered soon). I just wish I could find something for you tube now.
Where is adaway available for download? Yeah I agree I watch a lot of YouTube and I used to have an Xposed module that blocked all add in the app, it was sweet.
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PJcastaldo said:
Where is adaway available for download? Yeah I agree I watch a lot of YouTube and I used to have an Xposed module that blocked all add in the app, it was sweet.
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Google.com
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adfree works great http://adfree.bigtincan.com/adfree.apk
simms22 said:
adfree works great http://adfree.bigtincan.com/adfree.apk
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Does it require root?
supasanch24 said:
Does it require root?
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Yes, it requires root.
Chalk up another one for this one. It's my go-to.
Thanks guys. Adfree works great.
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Huh? AdAway is working for me. I downloaded it from f-droid. I just ran an Ookla Speedtest and no ads came up
I prefer using https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway ... AdFree is nice but blocks a lot of the Slickdeals links for me, yeah theres whitelisting but Slickdeals has a lot of redirecting links whereas AdAway is less aggressive on that part and gets most of the ads.
I see @simms22 finally got his N6
I use adaway on my N6 and it works great.
Anyway to block youtube app ads? I used to use xposed module for this, but...
Anybody else having problems with the whitelist? Viglink redirects always fail when adaway is active
mk92595 said:
Anybody else having problems with the whitelist? Viglink redirects always fail when adaway is active
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Works fine here.
Whitelist *.viglink.com
There used to be this great xposed module that removed the ad spaces in apps. I really hope that comes to L somehow.
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Anybody else having problems with the whitelist? Viglink redirects always fail when adaway is active
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It's the redirects we need to get rid of [emoji57]
franatic08 said:
It's the redirects we need to get rid of [emoji57]
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Can't open any link on Tapatalk because of it
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Can't open any link on Tapatalk because of it
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Whitelist redirect.viglink.com on AdAway then reapply the list.
Out of curiosity, can you run an adblocker (like adaway), have it modify the hostfile, then unroot and still have ads blocked? Or do you need to keep root for the changes to remain in effect?
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Out of curiosity, can you run an adblocker (like adaway), have it modify the hostfile, then unroot and still have ads blocked? Or do you need to keep root for the changes to remain in effect?
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You can unroot after making the change. You would have to re-root to update or modify the hosts file again.
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Hey,
Is there any way to block YouTube ads on an android?
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very good work mates!
boxer145 said:
very good work mates!
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What?
Roastmeat said:
Hey,
Is there any way to block YouTube ads on an android?
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try adfree https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ad+blocker&c=apps
xsenman said:
try adfree https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ad+blocker&c=apps
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I think that's the one I tried before, and it didn't block Youtube ads
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try adfree https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ad+blocker&c=apps
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That's what I use. Works for me.
After installing adfree make sure you download and install the hosts then reboot your phone.
I am pretty sure that adfree doesn't work for youtube ads. I don't think there's anything you can do about the ads since they come from youtube directly as opposed to an advertisement service server (which is how it works on most websites and apps).
I'm using AdAway, much better than AdFree : (sorry, can't post links now, just search in Google Play "AdAway")
I use adfree never seen ads on youtube
do you use youtube's app or by just entering m.youtube.com?
I'm using AdAway and I haven't seen a YouTube ad.
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AdAway does the trick
I installed AdAway a couple days ago and i haven't seen a single ad on my tablet since. It appears to be working a lot better than Adblock Plus for Android.
The youtube apk has no ads if im not mistaken. Only www.youtube.com has them.
By installing any adblocker and useing either FireFox or Google Chrome you can block these ads
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nearly a year old thread.
respect
what i know the youtube app also has ads
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The youtube apk has no ads if im not mistaken. Only youtube.com has them.
By installing any adblocker and useing either FireFox or Google Chrome you can block these ads
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Without an ad blocker, the YouTube app will often play video ads before videos.
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I`m using AdAway also and I haven't seen a YouTube ad
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I`m using AdAway also and I haven't seen a YouTube ad
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I can confirm ADAWAY works!!! =)
AdFree doesn't seem to work anyone on Kit Kat. It looks like "/etc/hosts" is still there, so maybe it's just the app. Besides manual copy paste into the hosts file, I was curious if anyone was using a working ad block app in Kit Kat.
Worked like a charm for me on the PA 4.4 version.
The version from kalo has built in ad block, so maybe you can flash that ram if you cant seem to get it to work.
Adaway worked for me on both N5 port and KK build by franco.
mumaster20 said:
Worked like a charm for me on the PA 4.4 version.
The version from kalo has built in ad block, so maybe you can flash that ram if you cant seem to get it to work.
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I'm on the boykioy's Nexus 5 port, perhaps that's why.
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Adaway worked for me on both N5 port and KK build by franco.
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AdAway worked like a charm! Thanks.
For anyone else that wants AdAway: download here.
Adaway failed for me at first during the apply process. Using root explorer I browsed to the system/etc/host file and set the permissions readable and writable. Retried adaway with success.
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Adaway works fine for me
Currently using Rastakat 4.4
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Works perfect for me.
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If you're on Chome and using the Reduce Data Usage feature, it will show ads even if you used an Ad blocker because the information goes through Google servers first for the compression then sends it to your phone.
The apps shouldn't show ads though.
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Adaway failed for me at first during the apply process. Using root explorer I browsed to the system/etc/host file and set the permissions readable and writable. Retried adaway with success.
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I tried that and it still failed, what did you set the permission to?
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saint_cow said:
I tried that and it still failed, what did you set the permission to?
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I just checked the group/write box and it worked. Leave all the rest as they are.
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I just checked the group/write box and it worked. Leave all the rest as they are.
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Not working here.
Running Purity ROM by DariosF.
Adblock works just fine for me
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Works fine on my nexus 4 with S, even in ART.
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Works for me fine. Tried two versions of blocking
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Ad Away works fine for me. Sometimes when I try to update the host file the app fails but after another attempt it usually works.
Hi Guys,
It doesn't work for me. I am on 4.4 Nexus 4. I use AdFree and I can see it has replaced the host files but still I am getting the ads. Not only in Chrome but in other apps too. I tried to manually copy host files from here.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1916098 to the /etc/ folder. but still ads are there. AdFree used to work perfectly for me on 4.3. Any suggestions.. Thanks
Adfree works fine for me on 4.4 stock rooted, at least ad far as copying the hosts file goes. However, something in kit Kat is different and not all websites ads are blocked now.
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Also installed firefox to check, if that made any difference. Strangely no ads on firefox. However, there are adverts present using Google chrome and some of the free apps that I installed via play store. Is it possible that android is by passing hosts file for chrome and other apps? BTW on my chrome there is no data reduction option present. I can only see "preload web pages" option, which I tried turning off and on but didn't make any difference.
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Adfree works fine for me on 4.4 stock rooted, at least ad far as copying the hosts file goes. However, something in kit Kat is different and not all websites ads are blocked now.
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Yes, it copies hosts files for me too. But the ads are still there.
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Also installed firefox to check, if that made any difference. Strangely no ads on firefox. However, there are adverts present using Google chrome and some of the free apps that I installed via play store. Is it possible that android is by passing hosts file for chrome and other apps? BTW on my chrome there is no data reduction option present. I can only see "preload web pages" option, which I tried turning off and on but didn't make any difference.
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Yes, it copies hosts files for me too. But the ads are still there.
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i have pretty much the same probs as any other posters above..some worked some didn't.
then i read somewhere about using adaway 2.3..older version but does the job flawlessly ever since.
try it out https://www.copy.com/s/SLpxt
jokkir said:
If you're on Chome and using the Reduce Data Usage feature, it will show ads even if you used an Ad blocker because the information goes through Google servers first for the compression then sends it to your phone.
The apps shouldn't show ads though.
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I couldn't seem to figure out why adaway wasn't working for me, but this makes perfect sense. I didn't even think about it when I turned this feature on.
Guyz, can anyone know how to remove banner ads from my Z1??? This ads popped up on my screen always...can u help me tweak out this annoying thing...tnx
adleons said:
Guyz, can anyone know how to remove banner ads from my Z1??? This ads popped up on my screen always...can u help me tweak out this annoying thing...tnx
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You need rooted device and app adaway or adfree.
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funky0308 said:
You need rooted device and app adaway or adfree.
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Use adblock plus
mezchro said:
Use adblock plus
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Adblock is crap...
If you must use it because you don't have root OK but it's not good...
It'll block only one small part of ads...
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No root Firewall
adleons said:
Guyz, can anyone know how to remove banner ads from my Z1??? This ads popped up on my screen always...can u help me tweak out this annoying thing...tnx
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If there is an app that you use mostly offline and it shows ads, using No root firewall will stop it from showing ads. If the app needs internet to function (example a browser or something that needs synching) this will not stop ads in that as it simply turns off ads on a per app basis. It is all or nothing for a app. Good for most of the apps.
Someone please make an ad block for Chromecast.
I dont think this would be possible if my understanding of how the chromecast works is correct. Once you cast things like youtube, the job of recieving the content is left to the chromecast, so youd need an app that would remove ads then cast that. Otherwise the only thing i could think of is if you made some kind of ad blocking proxy like what DD-WRT does and run your chromecast through that, quitr certain that needs a rooted chromecast though. Of course, an even better solution would be, at least in youtube's case, for google to fix the implementation of ads, at present the skip ad button is shown onthe tv screen, so you are forced to watch the sometimes 5 minute long ads. I may be completely incorrect in saying this, as i said, this is just from my understanding.
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It appears YouTube adaway(xposed module) was just updated to do this, seems to have worked from my testing, cant fully confirm yet though.
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What do you mean ? YouTube ? There are no ads on chromecast
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What do you mean ? YouTube ? There are no ads on chromecast
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Unless ive been dreaming for the past two months, im quite certain there are.
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Rakuu said:
Unless ive been dreaming for the past two months, im quite certain there are.
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Put details of what apps have ads . Other way you were dreaming
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Put details of what apps have ads . Other way you were dreaming
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Quitr certain youtube has ads, havent seen any since the new youtube adaway update though, yet.
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Using the official youtube app on my Nexus 6, I'm getting frequent ads when watching youtube videos via chromecast. But now I've implemented an ad-blocker using a raspberry pi as an ad-blocking dns server (search for "pi-hole" if interested).
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Using the official youtube app on my Nexus 6, I'm getting frequent ads when watching youtube videos via chromecast. But now I've implemented an ad-blocker using a raspberry pi as an ad-blocking dns server (search for "pi-hole" if interested).
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DD-WRT has something like this as well.
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It appears to have started very recently. Every video I get a damn ad now. It's not related to the current version as I'm on v5. I don't use Xposed, so I guess I'm screwed.
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It appears to have started very recently. Every video I get a damn ad now. It's not related to the current version as I'm on v5. I don't use Xposed, so I guess I'm screwed.
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I dont think you'd be unscrewed using xposed anyway, the update for the module didnt actually fix the ads, i got a 12 minute long ad the other day.
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I returned to the youtube V10.25.57 and have not had more ads
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DD-WRT has something like this as well.
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Do you have a link to this? I've tried several ad blocking on my ddwrt router, but none block chrome cast for me.
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Do you have a link to this? I've tried several ad blocking on my ddwrt router, but none block chrome cast for me.
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All the requests are SSL so you'd need to root your CC and set it to use the proxy. Also apparently YouTube adblock DOES work you just need an old YouTube version, so it would probably be easier to give that a shot as long as you're on with using an old version.
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All the requests are SSL so you'd need to root your CC and set it to use the proxy. Also apparently YouTube adblock DOES work you just need an old YouTube version, so it would probably be easier to give that a shot as long as you're on with using an old version.
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Okay. Thank you. I'll give an old version a try. On that note does anyone know how to make updates for apps not show up on the play store? There's a couple apps I like to stay on old version with for various reasons like this.
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Okay. Thank you. I'll give an old version a try. On that note does anyone know how to make updates for apps not show up on the play store? There's a couple apps I like to stay on old version with for various reasons like this.
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If I remember correctly you go to manage apps, all find the app you're hunting for click on it and it'll open app info
and just under force stop you should have the option to untick the checkmark for show notifications.
Hope it helps you
Hey guys, just noticed something, chromecast doesn't or rarely plays ads before a video that has low view count so if someone could spoof the nr. Of views the video actually has naybe chromecast would not think to play ads, anyways, just putting it out here
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Hey guys, just noticed something, chromecast doesn't or rarely plays ads before a video that has low view count so if someone could spoof the nr. Of views the video actually has naybe chromecast would not think to play ads, anyways, just putting it out here
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The reason for that is probably due to the fact that those videos are not from partnered channels, unless somethings changed recently ads only show on partnered channels.
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So isn't there a way to spoof youtube into thinking all videos aren't partnered? Just brainstorming
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So isn't there a way to spoof youtube into thinking all videos aren't partnered? Just brainstorming
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Doubtful, if you use the right version of YouTube adaway then it blocks the ads
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Hello i currently root my mxpe 6.0.1 and im using adaway and minminguard but the ads on google chrome are killing me
any suggestion on how to remove them ?
Adaway uses sources like mvps, which block big known ad sources.
You would have to get the source for the ad and report it to one of the adaway blocking services like mvps.
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Use greasemonkey for chrome and block that way.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gre...9i57.8582j0j4&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Assuming you have adaway enabled, lol.
And after hosts file update, hard reboot or shutdown and bootup.
I use Adblock Plus it's a third party app but it works wonders.
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Since you're rooted and want to block ads. Try out xposed & ad blocking module for apps.
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I use adguard and am pretty pleased. It works non-rooted, too. There is some more tweaks you can do if you are rooted though.
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my problem is with the chrome ads
well the most simple way is to use AdAway. its really easy to use. and i get no special DNS or VPN settings (whitch is very battery consuming)
Xposed MinMinGuard and Adaway
AdAway all the way
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Try TugaBrowser, it's based on Chromium and has a built-in adblocker.
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Try TugaBrowser, it's based on Chromium and has a built-in adblocker.
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Hmm. Thanks for the tip. Is this only for browser?
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Yeah it's just a browser and the adblocking engine is just working inside the browser. But try it, it's very smooth
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Yeah it's just a browser and the adblocking engine is just working inside the browser. But try it, it's very smooth
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I can't make it work on mine, it crashes on startup.
I use "Rbrowser" instead which has as well adblocker and is the only browser that does not have a scrolling lag on my MX Pure. Very happy with it.
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Try TugaBrowser, it's based on Chromium and has a built-in adblocker.
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you have link? ty
Use this :
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24671318762849385
or xda labs
I use AdAway but note that it sometimes causes issues. Blocks things like Google shopping links, coupons and promo code websites, redirects, even the eBay app would not work for me.
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I use AdAway but note that it sometimes causes issues. Blocks things like Google shopping links, coupons and promo code websites, redirects, even the eBay app would not work for me.
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You can add the url base domain to your Adaway white list, such as:
ad.doubleclick.net
googleadservices.com
da.feedsportal.com
and others...
Use MOAAB, no need to install apps. Just flash
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I used to use AdAway but too often it would block legitimate sites I was trying to get to. I then started using the Adblock Plus browser which was good for a while but has really gone down hill lately.
I'm now using FireFox with the Adblock Plus extension and while it isn't perfect, it most closely suits my needs.
you guys have an app to block youtube ads? I have installed youtube adaway exposed and was working flawlessly but since a few weeks stopped working and now youtube ads are all over the place. any suggestion?