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Allgemein Android Projekte Web Werbung

Android: Block ads in all apps and while browsing

Blocking ads has various benefits:

  • 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!

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Allgemein Programmieren Projekte Web

“IP Address & Geolocation” version 2.0 released

I’ve published a new version of my browser extension (aka webextension) “IP Address & Geolocation”.

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:

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.

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Allgemein Projekte Web

“IP Address & Geolocation” now with IPv6 support

I’ve released updates for the Android app and the browser extension of my tools named both “IP Address & Geolocation” with a total of over 120000 downloads.

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

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Android Web

Android system-wide ad blocking without root

[UPDATED] See also new post about this topic.

Blocking ads system-wide on an Android device isn’t that difficult. And it works without rooting your phone. Just follow the steps below and you will set it up in less than five minutes:

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Projekte Web

Firefox ‘IP Geolocator’ extension

I have released the IP Geolocator extension now also for Firefox. You can find it on the Firefox Add-on page.

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