• Safer & faster internet browsing
• More privacy, it stops ad servers from tracking you
• Less data usage (data plan lasts longer)
• Better browsing experience (no popups, no blinking ads, no video-ads …)

How can you make your whole Android system ad-free within a few minutes? Using “DNS Changer – Lilly” and AdGuard DNS!

If you haven’t already, download “DNS Changer – Lilly” from the PlayStore:

After you have downloaded the app, you should find a list with DNS server entries already present. Since it is not allowed to add an ad-blocking DNS server into that list while deploying the app due to restrictions on the PlayStore, we have to add it now manually.

To block ads, we have to add a specific ad-blocking DNS server. Mainly DNS servers shouldn’t block certain addresses. They are meant to give the real IP addresses of any hostname you ask for. In our case we explicitly want to have ad-serving hostnames being filtered out.

In our case we will use AdGuard‘s DNS servers. You can of course add any other ad-blocking DNS server.

Click on the plus sign on top of the app. It should open a popup where you now can enter the details of the new entry.

Enter a name for your new entry, could be “AdGuard DNS”.

For the IP addresses, add following entries:

• 94.140.14.14
• 94.140.15.15
• 2a10:50c0::ad1:ff
• 2a10:50c0::ad2:ff

After you have entered all the details, click on “add” and select the newly added entry in the list and click “connect”.

Now you are ready to go! If you want to make sure that you are using AdGuard’s DNS servers just visit their page and they will show you if you are using their services. Also, your system and browsing experience should be ad-free now!

Changelog for version 2:

• Country flags are now shown as an icon in the toolbar, thanks to @mispp, who has contributed code through GitHub
  • This can be switched back to the default globe icon in options page
• The extension popup (the small window you get when clicking on the icon in the toolbar) has now an error handling with a retry-function. A snackbar (a notification) will appear when the extension is not able to load any data. In previous versions the progressbar was just running endlessly without any feedback in a case of an error.
• Images were optimized with the help of optipng.
• Build script added to create packages for different browsers automatically. WebExtensions were meant to be a cross-browser system for developing extensions but browsers still have different support in case of APIs and metadata files. So the script helps for testing and deploying the extension on different browsers.
• Removed storage permission for Chrome-like browsers, Firefox still needs it to save the settings. This is a good example for the different behavior of the browsers.
• Higher contrast for badge with the country code. Now the background is black and the text is white.

Install for your browser:

• Chrome Webstore
• Firefox Add-ons
• Opera Add-ons

As of today the extension has over 140000 downloads where the most are from Opera users. One reason for the huge Opera user-base is, that my extension was trending in the “privacy & security” category of Opera’s Add-on store. It is still on page 2 of the most popular extensions. So give it a try.

You can also find the source code on GitHub.

With the new updates you’re now able to see your IPv6 and get also alerts for these when they change.

This might help you while using VPN for example. So you can make sure that both of your IP addresses has changed. If you have no visible IPv6 then your ISP is not supporting it. Some ISP enable it on request, have a look.

Download

• Android
• Firefox
• Chrome
• Opera

Additionally I enhanced some parts of the code. You can find the latest version in PlayStore:

The services with IPv6 support are noted in the description:

Please note:
If you are using NoScript or any similiar add-on you have to whitelist following URLs to make IP Geolocator work for you:

• moz-extension:
• aykutcevik.com

Description:

About this Add-on

Shows your IP address and also geolocational informations about your IP address.

A badge of your current country is shown on the icon, which will refresh every 3s. So you can easily see, if you have a broken VPN or proxy connection when the country-code changes unexpectedly. Additionally a notification appears on your desktop when your IP address has changed – of course, it can be turned off in settings.

You can also display your position in Google Maps: in the popup as an image like in the screenshot or optionally just as a link to Google Maps.

With the latest update, your user agent is also shown in the entries.

Please feel free to make some requests at github:
https://github.com/AykutCevik/Geolocate-IP-Browser-Extension

The request to the server to obtain your geolocational information is secured at least with TLSv1. Also Perfect Forward Secrecy is enabled. JFYI.

“NoScript”-add-on users need to whitelist following websites:
* moz-extension:
* aykutcevik.com

IP Geolocator shows your IP address and also geolocational informations about your IP address.

A badge of your current country is shown on the icon, which will refresh every 3s. So you can easily see, if you have a broken VPN or proxy connection when the country-code changes unexpectedly.

Also you can display your position in Google Maps.

Please feel free to make some requests at github:
https://github.com/AykutCevik/Geolocate-IP-Browser-Extension

Find it on Chrome Web Store.