imasdk.googleapis.com (breaking rai.tv live)

[FabioEight]

• Expected behaviour:

Rai.Tv live tv streaming working properly on Android/Fire TV

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Install Rai.tv App from GStore/Amazon Store (https://www.raiplay.it/)

System configuration Fire TV OS (FireStick) Filters: AdGuard Mobile Ads filter (via NextDNS)

Information	Value
Operating system:	Fire OS
Operating system version (Android/iOS)	-
Browser:	None, Rai Play app
AdGuard version:	None, filter enabled on NextDNS
Filters enabled:	-
AdGuard DNS:	None

I've been looking through the DNS queries executed by the Fire Stick while accessing the service (i.e. Rai 1 live streaming through Rai Play app), trying to whitelist all the hosts blocked one by one. Once I whitelisted: imasdk.googleapis.com, immediately the Fire Stick was able to play the stream. Removing it from the whitelist cause the inability to start the stream. This is affecting only the Android app/service, since using the same app (same network/filters) on iOS doesn't cause any issue.

[krystian3w]

Maybe:

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/blob/075651a3a81e49e653198cea37892b4ddb652b28/MobileFilter/sections/adservers.txt#L786

But NextDNS should consider "don't convert this into DNS rule" - own NextDNS script also ban domains with used $popup and $third-party, then DNS can't detect pop-ups and what page generated request to load third-party resource.

[FabioEight]

Maybe:

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/blob/075651a3a81e49e653198cea37892b4ddb652b28/MobileFilter/sections/adservers.txt#L786

But NextDNS should consider "don't convert this into DNS rule" - own NextDNS script also ban domains with used $popup and $third-party, then DNS can't detect pop-ups and what page generated request to load third-party resource.

Do you suggest to raise an issue to NextDNS as well?

[krystian3w]

Just as AdGuard states it will not fix this at the FiltersRegistry repository level (disable copy 1 rule from EasyList) and in /MobileFilter/sections/adservers.txt (if NextDNS also convert Filter "list" AdGuard Mobile Ads to DNS rules).

Origin rule is from EasyList project copied: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/533bbecef6cbed74672031d79072eb05620ee0dc/easylist/easylist_adservers.txt#L12087 (I think are not likely to remove it or rewrite it so that the NextDNS script no longer converts it).

[Alex-302]

Hi. We cannot remove this domain from DNS filter. It blocks ads on many sites.

[Alex-302]

But you can try AdGuard Home - it has filtering log and user filter, and you can block/unblock anything you want)