My ABP (sad ?!) experience

Everything about using the stand-alone Adblock Plus app on Android
x4711
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My ABP (sad ?!) experience

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When I found this app I thought this is it. And I even tried to help here others in the forum. But after many attempts to use it I sadly have to admit that I finally gave up. And when I look at the last change log it is just insulting
lewisje
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Post by lewisje »

By "last changelog" do you mean the one that updated RootTools: https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockplusa ... 2399b7ab77
Maybe you mean the one that looks for iptables on the system, for compatibility with Honeycomb: https://hg.adblockplus.org/adblockplusa ... a1649236e7
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x4711
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Re: My sad experience

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I am talking about this

#348: 2015-01-13 20:22 +0100 Wladimir Palant
Noissue - Updated copyright year and project link

As if there are no problems. My experience was that after some https sites it stopped working. Putting these sites in the proxy exceptions did not help. Had to disable /re-enable WiFi so that I could continue.

It is a good idea and I still hope that they can fix all the problems. But I will take a break...
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mapx
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Re: My sad experience

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you could file an issue on the bug tracker ...
https://issues.adblockplus.org
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Re: My sad experience

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anyway, you can see other patches in work, or closed (and probably should land in some dev build - see owner René Jeschke)
http://codereview.adblockplus.org/all
m&m

Re: My sad experience

Post by m&m »

x4711 is rigth. The last serious dev build was ages ago, not to mention the last stable release. There are many bugs on android - the app ruins the internet experience. It slows down chrome navigation, it crashes often, needs constant restarts. It doesn't realy work well with youtube app.

I've been using the PC chrome extension for years now and have no complaints at all. But the android version made me uninstall it after 3 months.

I'll give it another try after the next major release. I rather stand the annoying ads, than use this bad android version.
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Re: My sad experience

Post by lewisje »

x4711 wrote:I am talking about this

#348: 2015-01-13 20:22 +0100 Wladimir Palant
Noissue - Updated copyright year and project link

As if there are no problems.
What it meant is that that particular change didn't fix any issue with the app.
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lalal

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Post by lalal »

same here. for me, the biggest fuk up is that it breaks mms. i honestly have to discourage people on reddit about adblock android. i just saw a post and thought to check if some things were fixed in the last 6 months.. nope! im going to go reply on reddit about the troubles this app causes
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Post by m&m »

I belive the whole "proxy" solution for android needs some rethinking. You just need to parse the http/https trafic. I think the "proxy" solution is what slows everything down, making the navigation so sluggish.
x4711
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Strange thing is when it hangs (again) and I switch the WiFi off and on then it works for a while - perhaps an other hour if I have luck. Then WiFi off and on again... I don't know what gets reset when I am doing this but perhaps something needs to be cleared. Perhaps the app should do this internally sometimes. But I don't know the code so I am just guessing. This all on Samsung Android 4.4.2.
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Re: My sad experience

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m&m wrote:I belive the whole "proxy" solution for android needs some rethinking. You just need to parse the http/https trafic. I think the "proxy" solution is what slows everything down, making the navigation so sluggish.
Guess what kind of app is needed on Android "to parse the http/https trafic" [sic] for all apps :roll:
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x4711
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Re: My sad experience

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Just uninstalled it finally. I am afraid the project is dead. Sometimes I think perhaps they are better off if it doesn't really work. But for sure just a bad and unrealistic dream.
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Post by m&m »

@x4711: this is the result when a good idea turns into a crappy implementation. You just get rid of it.

@lewisje: maybe the next implementation should be named adblock plus browser, instead of Guess what kind of app [...]
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Re: My sad experience

Post by lewisje »

^Maybe you didn't understand my idiom, but what I was saying is that the kind of app that would "parse the http/https" traffic for other apps is known as a "local filtering proxy," a.k.a. what ABP for Android is.

There are plenty of browser shells with names like "Adblock Browser" already (mostly for iOS, where local filtering proxies are not allowed), but Eyeo would rather not ask people to switch their browsers just to use ABP.
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Perhaps I was overly sarcastic, but naming an app with browser at the end doesn't make it a browser. I think you need some extra voodoo magic in there too.

I found an interestingly old issue, that sums some things up:
https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/253
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