privacy – Aykut Çevik https://aykutcevik.com/blog coding & projects Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:53:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 Android: Block ads in all apps and while browsing https://aykutcevik.com/blog/android-block-ads-in-apps-and-while-browsing/ https://aykutcevik.com/blog/android-block-ads-in-apps-and-while-browsing/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:00:00 +0000 https://aykutcevik.com/blog/?p=1169 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!

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

DNS Changer – Lilly

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.

Add new DNS entry in Lilly

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!

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IDN Safe blocks internationalized domain names also known as punycode domains. This helps you to identify them and will prevent you from visiting probable fake sites.

The use of Unicode in domain names makes it potentially easier to spoof web sites as the visual representation of an IDN string in a web browser may make a spoof site appear indistinguishable to the legitimate site being spoofed, depending on the font used.

With IDN Safe you can temporarily allow domains or whitelist them at all. By default they are blocked.

Get it

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