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News websites are asking if I'm a robot instead of showing the headlines.Is it common? https://postimg.cc/47xNhT1g


Unfortunately yes. They see too many requests from paperdelivery.co and block requests originating from that domain - they only want the google bot to crawl their site :) I think I have two options:

1. Respect their decision to not allow PaperDelivery to fetch that page.

2. Use a set of proxies and headless browsers or outright impersonate the Google bot to trick the news websites into allowing PaperDelivery to fetch that page.


Are these apps similar to Blockada?

https://blokada.org/


Blokada isn't a serious security app. It leaks DNS connections over TCP (only handles UDP) and uses covert techniques to track users (generates a unique ID for every install and sends it tagged with the phone model every time one visits a blokada webpage from within the app).

Yeah, no where close.

Disclaimer: I work on privacy enhancing tech on Android.


As a user of Blokada myself I'd like to ask, is there any system-wide ad blocker for Android you would recommend?


Apart from usual suspects like AdGuard [0] and other anti-virus products:

Intra [1] with any adblocking DNS of your choice.

Nebulo: [2] A no-gimmicks alternative to DNS based blocking (their latest beta supports DNS over HTTP3 (QUIC)).

I use both: Intra has no DNS leaks but is IPv4 only right now and laced with analytics (the fork I developed/use is stripped off all analytics). Nebulo is lighter on RAM and battery and supports custom on-device blocklists (non PlayStore version).

[0] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html

[1] https://getintra.org/

[2] https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen#inst...


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