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Title: please select a meaningful title! e.g. Blokada for Android doesn’t block ads in my-little-farm-animals app
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Where did you download Blokada from? Blokada.org web site
Which device do you use? Do you use a custom ROM? Do you know which OS version you are using?
Device is Winnovo T10 tablet, standard ROM, Android 9.0
Please explain the issue as detailed as possible. Also include patterns you observed (like ‘it only happens on wifi’). The more information the better.
V.5.2.1 did a very good job of blocking ads (Blocklist is Energizer ultimate, DNS is Cloudflare DoH). Updated to v.5.3 and noticed inline ads were once again appearing, as were other ads (overlay on bottom of screen) in Chrome (current release). Checked my phone (LG LM-Q710, Android 8.1.0) also running 5.3 and the ads I was seeing on the tablet were blocked on the phone. Verified that all mutual settings were the same (except Private DNS set Off on tablet but there is no such setting in Android 8.1.0). Everything matched but a web site on the phone showed virtually no ads, while the same site on the tablet blocked almost no ads. The Activity list on the phone showed 7 blocked web addresses, but the tablet showed nothing blocked. Uninstalled 5.3 from the tablet, installed 5.2.1, returned to the same web site and there were no ads, and the Activity showed the same 7 blocked entries as the phone did under 5.3 and Android 8.1.0.
Since when are you facing this issue?
Since updating 5.2.1 to 5.3 version
Did you already try to solve the issue somehow? If so: please state what you did.
Yes and no. Issue remains with v.5.3, so I have gone back to v.5.2.1 on the tablet while remaining on v.5.3 on my phone.
Well, I tried the current 5.3.0 from the beta channel. In terms of ad blocking, nothing has changed… 5.3 still blocks fewer ads than 5.2.1 does. Additionally, updating to that 5.3.0 from the beta channel, new problems arose. First, the update did not maintain all my settings from 5.2.1, such as using DNS over HTTPS, and notifications (it turned off the Activity notification, and turned on the Icon Badge that I had turned off). The “worst” change was that when I turned the Activity notification back on, it didn’t, even after a restart.
One other thing… on my Android 9.0 tablet, I wanted to see if a clean install helped with ad blocking and Activity (it didn’t), but this caused a new problem… by default, without asking, Blokada was installed to my SD card. This resulted in being unable to automatically restart the app after restarting the tablet. The VPN always on setting did not hold. I moved Blokada to internal storage and that problem went away. Surprisingly, when I installed (clean) 5.2.1, the same problem occured.
I can suggest a cause… 5.3 installed with backups on by default, which I turned off. I suspect that, when I did a clean install on 5.2.1, 5.3 had created a backup which stayed after I turned that “feature” off, and 5.2.1 used that backup to install where 5.3 did, on the SD card. I had to move 5.2.1 to get the VPN setting to stick there, too.
I have the same problem. With v5.2 ads were blocked while now, after last update, ads are not blocked anymore!
I have a Huawei Mate 10 Pro with Android 9 and EMUI 9.1 original (no mods or custom roms or root).
In addition, I installed v4.8.5 and it works flawlessy, but it still continues to update automatically in background, so, after a while, I found again back installed v5.0. Is there any way to stop this behaviour ?!?! Because v.5.0 doesn’t work for my device, I would like to stay with v.4.x.x but I can’t !!
PLease someone let me know a solution. Many Thanks!!
I don’t know if it will work for you, but you said that v.5.2.1worked for you, so I would suggest going back to that. That is what I have done. It has told me once, that there is an update available, but it did not update automatically. 5.2.1 is working just fine, blocking virtual all ads (while 5.3 blocked around 25% of them), so I plan on trying new updates when available but hold on to 5.2.1 just in case.
I already wrote it: it’s totally useless! I would like to stay with v.4.8.x but despite I answer NO to the update request, when I exit then go back to the app after a while, app had upgraded itself in background!
So, if some of the developers will read, sooner or later, this post I tell you: add a stupid SWITCH into settings to turn on or off automatic updates. THANK YOU!
I’m sorry. I understood from your OP that 5.2.1 worked for you (“With v5.2 ads were blocked”), which is why I suggested going back to the 5.2.1 version. This is what I did…v.5.3 works fine on my Android 8.1 phone, but fails to block ads on my Android 9 tablet, so I have v.5.3 on the phone, and v.5.2.1 on the tablet. It is not an ideal solution, but at least it leaves me with a functional version of Blokada on both items.
I have the same problem.
It is clear that v5.3 has some bugs, v5.2.1 and earlier versions were fine. Please fix it!
I hate to clear the app data or uninstall it, because I would like to keep the ad blocked counter. I have a Huawei P Smart fig-lx1 with Android 9 and EMUI 9.1.0.
Stefano… if you simply uninstall 5.3 without first clearing the cache or storage in the Apps settings, and then install 5.2.1, the ads blocked count will remain, I believe.
First of all I’d like to ask you to watch your language a little.
Second of all: Blokada doesn’t get updated fully automatically if you don’t set Huawei App Gallery, F-Droid or Google Play Store to do so.
We cannot influence the behaviour of stores.
We would if we knew what is going on. Unluckily no-one offered to provide us with logs and full issue descriptions yet. Please do so if you want to assist us. We need logs of folks experiencing issues with v5.3
@PrintableCharacter… I have done the “suggestions” in that thread more times than I care to remember. I have checked, double checked and repeatedly checked my settings. The situation remains no different…v.5.2.1 blocks virtually all ads, while v.5.3.0 blocks virtually no ads. No settings are changed, and to be sure, I visited the same sites with both versions, and without fail, v.5.3.0 did not block ads that v.5.2.1 did. Indeed, the Activity list in v.5.3.0 did not even show the web sites, blocked or allowed, that the v.5.2.1 Activity list indicated as blocked.
I have tried a clean install of v.5.3.0, tried updating v.5.2.1 to v.5.3.0 (both the older beta version and the current beta file) and even tried updating from v.5.2.1 to v.5.3 (Oct. 26 beta) then to v.5.3.0 (downloaded from the beta channel). Consistently, the result was the same.
The only “hint” I can offer in terms of helping solve this, is that the problem has been reported by multiple users, and in each and every case, the thing in common was Android 9. My tablet, which exhibits the problem, is on Android 9, while my phone, which has v.5.3.0 installed and ads are blocked, is running Android 8.1. It appears that the common factor is Android 9.
@PrintableCharacter… one other thing different in my case (I don’t know about others) is that my tablet does not have wireless (data/phone), only a wifi connection, where the phone has both.
I’ve downloaded Blokada from ur website and it updates automatically from version 4 to 5. Even after uninstalling V5 and reinstall V4. So it would be nice to get a switch where u could decide by urself to update or not.
Btw, i’ve got the problem that V5.3 doesn’t block ads also.
Huawei Mate20 pro with Android 10 & EMUI 10.
I would to apologise for my previous reply. However, after reading @PrintableCharacter reply, I checked that it’s Huawei AppGallery that automatically updates every version of Blokada less then 5 to v.5.1.0, because this is the last one present into the store! Infact, I have no update from 5.1.0 to 5.3.0, because that version is not present into the store.
For the moment, I’ll stay with v.5.1.0 that blocks all ads (despite without the toggle into status bar, I have to lauch it manually every time), hoping that version 5.4.0 will work good again.
RichardEB… which Android OS etc are you using. I have no problems with Android 8.1 (Blokada 5.3.0 blocks ads), but do with Android 9.0 (have to use Blokada 5.2.1 to have ads blocked).
