Well, it is only 2 days running 5.4.0 beta, and today, updating to 5.4.0 release on he beta channel. Before each update, I Forced Stop Blokada and cleared the cache (in Settings… Apps) for Chrome, Google and Blokada. In addition, prior to updating from 5.2.1 to 5.4.0 beta, I turned on the setting mentioned in my post above, I.E. I turned on “Unrestricted Data Usage” for Blokada 5 in the details section of Data Usage.
I can’t guarantee that this is the answer to getting 5.4.0 to properly block ads under Android 9 for others who have posted with the problem. If you care to try it, the steps are as follows:
- In Settings… Apps…All Apps, find Chrome, select Storage, and clear the cache.
- Do the same for Google
- locate Blokada 5, Force Stop it from running (ignore the warning), then follow the above steps to clear it’s cache
- Update Blokada to 5.4.0.
- Restart your phone or tablet.
Once you update, activate Blokada 5 and then check to be sure your other settings carried forward. In my case, I used Cloudflare (DoH) for the first 12 hours, then changed the DNS setting to Blokada (DoH). So far, 5.4.0 has been successfully bloking all ads, as 5.2.1 did.
I don’t know if this will work for you, but it is worh a try.
Gregg