Some apps repeat ad requests every second

[ameshkov]

List of apps: Play Music Manga Rock

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4guine/adguard_25_update_is_live_with_https_filtering/d2mg2t4

The same issue with Play Music.

[gshumihin]

Here's https log of a problem with play music: adguardlog.txt

[ameshkov]

@gshumihin don't forget about magna rock

[gshumihin]

Here's http request log: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s1pjhsvvzfijl7o/adguard.log Application name: com.notabasement.mangarock.android.titan Seems like app loads ads while being in background.

[ameshkov]

Play Music

These are requests from GoogleTagManager: https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/android/v4/#intro https://support.google.com/dcm/partner/answer/4293719?hl=en

[ameshkov]

Instead of an empty response, we should return an error response (500 Internal Server Error for instance). I hope in this case they'll use their exponential backoff strategy: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/java/google-http-java-client/backoff#examples

[ameshkov]

It seems that for GoogleTagManager we should simply return 200 OK response otherwise it may sometimes react with constant request repeating.

[ameshkov]

We should also add two domains to SSL blacklist: doubleclick.net googleadservices.com

[TPS]

We should also add two domains to SSL blacklist: doubleclick.net googleadservices.com

If #552 is already accomplished, why's this necessary?

[ameshkov]

If #552 is already accomplished, why's this necessary?

GoogleTagManager may (sometimes) go crazy when we simply drop connections to these domains. And without https filtering this is what we do for these domains.

[Eugene-Savenko]

The app 'Next', lock screen one, by Microsoft, is being reported in Adguard as a huge ads traffic. Something like hundreds of thousands of requests (daily) to ads. The bandwidth 'saved' reach in about 1gb or so (daily as well).

The NEXON game 'Oz: Broken Kingdom' has the same issue.

Logs and stuff: 1441845

[ameshkov]

@gshumihin please take a look at it.

[ameshkov]

@evgeniy-ADG please ask user to record HTTP requests log, it's hard to reproduce this issue with MS apps on our side.

[carlylemiii]

Goodreads is another such app that goes absolutely nuts:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p6zquasjmud8kp4/adguard_logs_0209_2233.zip?dl=1

[TPS]

I find, since I use DNS-level blocking, I don't see much of this. Is there a way to enable DNS-blocking per-app, for those who don't want it globally?

[ameshkov]

@TPS unfortunately, dns-blocking is always system-wide

[TPS]

Duplicates #786, also?

I'm suddenly having this issue w/ ||csi.gstatic.com^ from the Mobile Ads subscription whenever I open GDrive: it & many related apps go nuts trying to find that server. I even tried the ||csi.gstatic.com^$important & (mentioned elseplace) ||csi.gstatic.com^$empty,important versions. This filter doesn't seem to block @ DNS-level, though it seems like an obvious candidate. Logs attached:

adguard_logs_1309_0518.zip

[ameshkov]

Is can see it in your log file, but I cannot reproduce it

[ameshkov]

Does it still happen?

[TPS]

Yep, everytime I open GDrive: adguard_logs_1709_1921.zip

[TPS]

Heh, ||csi.gstatic.com$important (minus the ^) fixes it! It's properly blocked via DNS. Maybe ^ precludes DNS processing, for some bug/parsing reason?

adguard_logs_1709_1931.zip

[ameshkov]

Hm, ||csi.gstatic.com^ should block it just okay

[ameshkov]

Huh, you're right:)

DNS question contains csi.gstatic.com. with a trailing dot. This is why it does not work properly.

[ameshkov]

Filed a bug report: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForAndroid/issues/1453

[TPS]

If it's just the trailing . problem, why does ||csi.gstatic.com^ have it & ||csi.gstatic.com not?

[TPS]

||fls-na.amazon.com^ from Spyware subscription has same problem. ||fls-na.amazon.com$important fixes it.

[TPS]

@ameshkov I'm still having this problem, though I thought #1453/https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardDNS/issues/185 was meant to fix it?!

adguard_logs_2.10.104_2609_2323.zip

[ameshkov]

It appears that these domains shouldn't be blocked on the DNS level as it may break some websites: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardDNS/blob/5a6bdbc9ecb7187f63090e05b3fbdb6656e0c25b/Filters/exclusions.txt#L22

However, when you add them to the user filter, they are blocked as user filter is used for DNS filtering.

[TPS]

Ah, ok. Now I understand the context of most of the above. Carry on.

Why is this issue still open, though?

[ameshkov]

Just in case we encounter new issues like that