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www.textnow.com #104793

Closed adguard-bot closed 2 years ago

adguard-bot commented 2 years ago

Issue URL (Ads)

http://www.textnow.com

Comment

The ad shown is always present in text now. For many months there were no ads in text now but now this one ad always shows.

Screenshots

Screenshot 1 ![Screenshot 1](https://reports-img.adguard.com/kHtbmIw.png)

System configuration

Information value
Platform: Android 10
AdGuard product: AdGuard for Android v3.6.5 (36)
Browser: DuckDuckGo
AdGuard mode: VPN
Filtering quality: High-quality
HTTPS filtering: enabled
Stealth mode options: Hide your search queries,
Send Do-Not-Track header,
Self-destructing third-party cookies (0)
DNS filtering: server: https://dns.adguard.com/dns-query
filters: https://filters.adtidy.org/android/filters/15_optimized.txt
Filters: Ad Blocking:
AdGuard Mobile Ads,
EasyList,
AdGuard Base,
Peter Lowe's Blocklist

Privacy:
Fanboy's Anti-Facebook List,
AdGuard Tracking Protection,
Fanboy's Enhanced Tracking List,
EasyPrivacy,
AdGuard URL Tracking,
Fanboy's Anti-thirdparty Fonts

Social Widgets:
AdGuard Social Media,
Fanboy's Social Blocking List

Annoyances:
AdGuard Annoyances,
Web Annoyances Ultralist,
Fanboy's Annoyances,
EasyList Cookie List,
Adblock Warning Removal List,
I don't care about cookies

Security:
NoCoin Filter List,
Online Malicious URL Blocklist

Other:
AdGuard DNS,
AdGuard Experimental,
Filter unblocking search ads and self-promotion
Userscripts: https://userscripts.adtidy.org/release/disable-amp/1.0/disable-amp.meta.js,
https://userscripts.adtidy.org/release/adguard-extra/1.0/adguard-extra.meta.js
Other extensions used: Malware bytes anti malware
shinozuka75 commented 2 years ago

The only reason I put a request in about this one ad in text now is because it is extremely rare to even see an ad in any android apps since I bought ad guard.

And this one ad seems frozen /stuck.. The ad never switches to another ad. So I thought I would send in a report, see if there is a way to get rid of it.

Alex-302 commented 2 years ago

@shinozuka75 Hi. How can I check it? Need steps to reproduce.

shinozuka75 commented 2 years ago

@shinozuka75 Hi. How can I check it? Need steps to reproduce.

Well in the Android textnow app the ad you see in the following link shows 100% of the time

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/027e8d64ebbfd34a6a82be7205c52e6fdff81a9d0bbb13b86f4adaf9d65e2c62/68747470733a2f2f7265706f7274732d696d672e616467756172642e636f6d2f6b4874626d49772e706e67

I am pretty sure it is an ad for for https://us.toluna.com/#/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.toluna.webservice&hl=en_US&gl=US

I never see any other ads. Only this one. it shows up on the main Text Now (Android app 21.47.0.0) menu and when you hit the hamburger menu in the top left on main Text now screen it shows up at the bottom of every screen.

I do have Malware Bytes Anti Malware. I do not know if that app is allowing the ad somehow.

ad3 Ad2 ad1

I think you can see the ad in all the attached screenshots.

On my phone (Unihertz Titan with Android 10) all I need to do to reproduce is open the app. The ad is always there .

I have Adguard 3.6.6 . I updated filters and rebooted the phone just now. Ad is there. As a side note AdGuard blocks SO MANY ads I was shocked to see this ad a few weeks ago. It never rotates to another ad . It is only in the one app.

Alex-302 commented 2 years ago

@shinozuka75 I can't install it on my device, because unsupported. Could you please close app, clear filtering log, reproduce an issue and make screenshots of the log?

shinozuka75 commented 2 years ago

Hello again,

Well what I did this morning (before I saw your reply) was I actually deleted the Adguard and Textnow apps from my Unihertz phone , rebooted then reinstalled both apps fresh.

So the screenshots I send you are after a fresh install.

The pesky ad is back.  I also see notifications HTTPS filtering error  Textnow does not accept  our certificate

I think is what it says.  I have included everything I could grab. The filtering log was several screens.

On 1/12/2022 4:02 AM, Alex wrote:

@shinozuka75 https://github.com/shinozuka75 I can't install it on my device, because unsupported. Could you please close app, clear filtering log, reproduce an issue and make screenshots of the log?

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Alex-302 commented 2 years ago

I also see notifications HTTPS filtering error  Textnow does not accept  our certificate

That's because you have enabled HTTPS filtering for this app in Apps Management:) It works in browsers.

The filtering log was several screens.

It seems, external(loaded from network, like Google Ads) ads are blocked, and they show you a dummy. What do you see in that places when AdGuard paused?

Maybe they load ad from own server. You may try to block static.textnow.com and check result(if nothing broken and ad is blocked, I will add the rule to filters).

shinozuka75 commented 2 years ago

It seems, external(loaded from network, like Google Ads) ads are blocked, and they show you a dummy. What do you see in that places when AdGuard paused?

(I should have thought of trying that.)

Ok so I paused AdGuard and refresh Textnow, the ad switched to an ad for CreditKarma.

I unpause and reboot the phone and the https://camo.githubusercontent.com/027e8d64ebbfd34a6a82be7205c52e6fdff81a9d0bbb13b86f4adaf9d65e2c62/68747470733a2f2f7265706f7274732d696d672e616467756172642e636f6d2f6b4874626d49772e706e67

ad is back.

Maybe they load ad from own server. You may try to block static.textnow.com and check result(if nothing broken and ad is blocked, I will add the rule to filters).

I don't think that did it. When I added static.textnow.com to my rules there was one time I didn't see the ad, but I rebooted and I saw the credit Karma ad again. I removed the rule and back to the Toluna ad. I have AdGuard enabled and updated . Textnow is running fine.

If we can't figure it out it is not a huge issue, it is just one ad. I appreciate you looking into it.

Alex-302 commented 2 years ago

Ok then.