Google Play: de.spiegel.android.app.spon

[adguard-bot]

Issue URL (Ads)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.spiegel.android.app.spon&hl=de

Comment

Although adguard filtered properly in the past, for two days now ads (probably coming from outbrain, see below) are not filtered anymore in the "Spiegel" app. Besides the ads I have also noticed a logo near the bottom of displayed pages saying "smartfeed" with the typical blue triangel from outbrain, so I guess the problem is caused by ads coming from outbrain.

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System configuration

Information	Value
AdGuard product:	AdGuard for Android v4.7 Nightly 25
System version:	Android 14
Browser:	App
License type:	paid
AdGuard mode:	VPN
HTTPS filtering:	enabled
Tracking protection options:	Strip URLs from tracking parameters, Send Do-Not-Track header, Hide your Referrer from third-parties, Hide your User-Agent, Block trackers
DNS filtering:	server: Automatisches DNS
Filters:	Ad Blocking: AdGuard Base, AdGuard Mobile Ads, EasyList
Browsing Security:	enabled
Browsing Security statistics:	disabled
Userscripts:	disabled

[vc20a]

seems to be ralated to issue "spiegel.de #189730"

[adguard-bot]

Issue URL (Ads)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.spiegel.android.app.spon

Comment

Since a couple of days, ads within the App "Spiegel Online" (German News App) are displayed. This was not the case in the months before. However, if HTTPS filtering for Spiegel Online App ist enabled, the App does not show any content at all (it starts, but the App windows stays black). Even without https filter enabled, there were not ads while ad guard was running.

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System configuration

Information	Value
AdGuard product:	AdGuard for Android v4.6.3
System version:	Android 14
Browser:	ADS in the App itself
License type:	paid
AdGuard mode:	VPN
HTTPS filtering:	enabled
Tracking protection options:	Send Do-Not-Track header, Hide your Referrer from third-parties, Hide your User-Agent, Remove X-Client-Data header from HTTP requests, Self-destructing third-party cookies (180), Self-destructing first-party cookies (4320)
DNS filtering:	server: System
Filters:	Ad Blocking: AdGuard Base, AdGuard Mobile Ads, EasyList Privacy: AdGuard Tracking Protection, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's Blocklist Social Widgets: AdGuard Social Media Annoyances: AdGuard Annoyances, AdGuard Cookie Notices, AdGuard Popups, AdGuard Mobile App Banners, AdGuard Other Annoyances, AdGuard Widgets, Adblock Warning Removal List, Fanboy's Annoyances, EasyList Cookie List, Dandelion Sprout's Annoyances List Security: Scam Blocklist by DurableNapkin, uBlock Origin – Badware risks, Phishing URL Blocklist, Online Malicious URL Blocklist Language-specific: AdGuard Russian, AdGuard German, AdGuard Chinese, EasyList China, EasyList Germany, RU AdList: Counters
Browsing Security:	enabled
Browsing Security statistics:	disabled
Userscripts:	https://userscripts.adtidy.org/release/adguard-extra/1.0/adguard-extra.meta.js https://userscripts.adtidy.org/release/disable-amp/1.0/disable-amp.meta.js

[zloyden]

Not reproduced on my end. @BlazDT please also take a look at this.

[BlazDT]

||macro.adnami.io^
||outbrain.com^$app=de.spiegel.android.app.spon
||googleadservices.com^$important,app=de.spiegel.android.app.spon
||ups.xplosion.de^$app=de.spiegel.android.app.spon
||api.theadex.com^$app=de.spiegel.android.app.spon
@@||benelph.de^$app=de.spiegel.android.app.spon

Those rules are fixing it for me. Cannot add ATM due to Windows 24H2 update.

[Alex-302]

adnami.io, xplosion.de, outbrain.com, theadex.com are already blocked in our TPF and DNS filter. Please check your settings.

[BlazDT]

They are not blocked on latest Android for the app. Screenshot_20241002-103533

TPF is enabled and up2date.

Screenshot_20241002-103700

Other ad requests also show up. Probably those are third-party rules and for apps they are considered as First-Party.

[Alex-302]

Is DNS protection enabled? Do you see the rules for that domains in optimized filters?

In any case - that banners loaded from the main domain and cannot be blocked.

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[Alex-302]

And why do you unblock benelph.de? It seems tracking or ads.

[BlazDT]

DNS is not enabled as not required for apps on Android.

benelph.de is ad reinjection if blocked.

[BlazDT]

Checked Android TPF optimized:

adnami.io - not included
||xplosion.de^$third-party
outbrain - not included
||theadex.com^$third-party

[Alex-302]

Not required, DNS filter or filtering server contains also 3p sources, and contains more ad/tracking domains. And not affected to $third-party modifier, when the rule may be not applied to apps.

[Alex-302]

Add to Mobile filter ||adnami.io^ To SpywareFilter\sections\mobile.txt

||xplosion.de^
||theadex.com^

[Alex-302]

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/commit/df33d25cb0ea2219af125eab2b5d54b688a2eca1#diff-44c3ffa5d2aaf7bf4823f74f276f7270cea9db697b4b87b2f8291322d6237127R12 is it required? I don't see detection.

[BlazDT]

If that server is blocked you will see the ads you wrote about unblockable above.