r-a-y / mobile-hosts

HOSTS files converted or sourced from various filter lists to prevent ads and tracking.

Mobile HOSTS

HOSTS files converted or sourced from various mobile filter lists to prevent ads and tracking.

Currently includes:

• AdGuard Mobile Ads (from AdGuard)

• AdGuard Mobile Tracking and Spyware (from AdGuard)

• AdGuard Tracking Protection (from AdGuard)

• AdGuard CNAME-cloaked Ads (from AdGuard)

• AdGuard CNAME-cloaked Clickthroughs (from AdGuard)

• AdGuard CNAME-cloaked Microsites (from AdGuard)

• AdGuard CNAME-cloaked Trackers (from AdGuard)

• EasyPrivacy 3rd-Party (from EasyList)

• EasyPrivacy Specific (from EasyList)

• AdGuard DNS (from AdGuard)

  AdGuard DNS is a simplified filter list made for DNS-level blocking. It includes various lists from AdGuard (Base, Mobile Ads, Tracking Protection, Cryptomining, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish/Portuguese, Turkish), EasyList (Base, Chinese, German, Italian), EasyPrivacy, Adblock Plus (Indonesian) and hostsVN (Vietnamese). Due to the size of the list, it is recommended for desktops only or in cases where you don't trust your users.

These lists will be updated from time-to-time. To update them yourself, the repo includes a PHP-CLI script (converter.php) that converts ad filter lists into HOSTS files. View the source for more details. Send a pull request if you want me to add a specific filter list.

FWIW, I personally just use AdGuard Mobile Ads and AdGuard Mobile Tracking and Spyware on my mobile devices.

Other good HOSTS files

• Eulaurarien First-Party Trackers (Source)

How to use?

Copy one of the above URLs into any HOSTS app that allows adding URLs as a source.

Originally created for use with Android. For unrooted devices, use personalDNSfilter. For rooted devices, try AdAway. All are available on F-Droid.

It is worth noting that DNSfilter can handle wildcard entries, which will offer better subdomain blocking coverage, but uses Android's built-in VPN to handle the blocking.

Alternatives for Android

Instead of using a HOSTS file, if you are on Android Pie or above, you can use the Private DNS (DNS over TLS) feature from a reputable provider like AdGuard, NextDNS or Quad9 for blocking. NextDNS allows you to choose various filter lists when you create an account with them, whereas AdGuard DNS covers the lists mentioned above and Quad9 specifically offers protection from malware and phishing.

Sources

• AdGuard filters are licensed under the GPLv3 (1) (2)
• EasyPrivacy is dual-licensed under the GPLv3 and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (1)

License

GPLv3

mobile-hosts's Issues

false positive

The line

0.0.0.0 etl.tindersparks.com

is contained within both AdguardMobileAds.txt and AdguardApps.txt

This domain is required to load tinder.com

klarnaservices breaks hottopic site

Hi. I'm re-filing this issue: StevenBlack/hosts#2309 here since your list seems to be the source of the problem. tl;dr klarnaservices.com is needed for hottopic.com to function properly.

AdguardDNS.txt wrong formated hosts

Thanks for providing the lists. Since the last update there are 7 invalid domains.
They all contain "$" in the domain.

REQ: add these kochava tracking domains to your block list

These are fresh 5 month old domains, obfuscated to not appear associated with kochava, and very little info on them, but I dug deep and found they are all related to kochava analytics.

"Kochava is the industry leader for mobile app attribution and mobile app analytics. Kochava provides an industry leading Analytics and Reporting system which clearly displays insights into users’ behavior, habits, and traffic patterns. Kochava sorts through vast amounts of data and using predictive analysis techniques can identify actionable insights into business."

Please add the following kochava domains to your block list:

co.akisinn.info
co.dewrain.life
co.vaicore.site
co.vaicore.xyz
int.akisinn.info
int.akisinn.me
int.akisinn.site
int.dewrain.life
int.dewrain.site
int.dewrain.world
int.vaicore.site
int.vaicore.store
int.vaicore.xyz
int.vlancaa.site
int.vlancaa.fun
tok.vaicore.xyz
vaicore.xyz
web.ab-salute.com
smart.link (kochava uses this as its own form of "bit.ly" intermediary for opening links)

Most of the above were calling out from my mobile. https://threatcrowd.org/domain.php?domain=int.vaicore.xyz

Note "URL analysis, under "network analysis" on this page https://beta.pithus.org/report/844aa271ef47f7807ab3ccc63952e2215298701a6851857c22456317927f08fd

This one particular app uses tracker querys Defined in com/kochava/base/m.java

https://kvinit-prod.api.kochava.com/track/kvinit
https://int.dewrain.life/track/kvinit
https://int.vaicore.site/track/kvinit
https://int.akisinn.info/track/kvinit
https://int.dewrain.site/track/kvinit
https://int.akisinn.site/track/kvinit
https://int.vaicore.xyz/track/kvinit
https://int.vaicore.store/track/kvinit
https://int.dewrain.world/track/kvinit

It should be noted that some of the apk files associated with these domains are high risk; https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/int.vaicore.site/relations

social media apps terminate hosts

can you please make hosts file to block all social media apps on mobile devices and windows?

[Q] AdGuard DNS + Mobile Tracking and Spyware

Is "AdGuard Mobile Tracking and Spyware" included in "AdGuard DNS" list?

trib.al

This is Twitter's URL Shortener domain
This is not inherently malicious

AdguardApps.txt isn't updated by script

Hello! Thank you for the awesome lists, It's perfect to use them with dnsmasq. Can you please add ability to update AdguardApps.txt via converter.php script?

c.paypal.com

@r-a-y for now it's just a possible false-positive. Will need to confirm my findings first before any decisions are made.
I do belive the domain is needed when buying something from Ebay and proceed to pay through PayPal.
Last time was just a rolling circle and wouldn't allow me to make the payment so i ended up whitelisting bunch of domains from various lists that i'm using(was already frustrated enough) just to get through and couldn't confirm which one was the culprit.
On my next purchase i'll have more info,for sure so let's keep this open,for now.
It's originally from easyprivacy_specific:
https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/ce7fc79133f7b671a8892b1324a5fba4b10e6dbf/easyprivacy/easyprivacy_specific.txt#L126
If it's not it,i'll just close this at later date. Thanks 👍

Masked domains

There is an entry at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r-a-y/mobile-hosts/master/AdguardDNS.txt that looks exclusive to adguard. AdguardTeam/AdGuardSDNSFilter#110

Are you having any issues with it? Does it work on your adblocker? I use this list and convert it for dnsmasq. Dnsmasq doesn't like domains starting with a dash so I had to remove it.

Convert internationalized domains to punycode

I've been using your AdguardDNS with my pihole installation. Thanks for the great work.
However, there are some (4) domains with Cyrillic letters that will be rejected by pihole unless they are formatted to punycode. Could you update your converter to automatically convert all domains with non-ASCII letters to punycode?

P.S There is one additional error as it contains a line with 'mxtads.com:8040' which is also rejected because of the colon.

Questions about AdGuard DNS

Hi,
first of all, thanks for your work :)
Then, I've two questions for you:

• why do you use chromium list instead of the regular one?
  https://adguardteam.github.io/AdGuardSDNSFilter/Filters/filter.txt
• what about adguar dns whitelisted domains (e.g. sas[dot]com)? Should your script remove them?

It's possible add this filter list?

I use AdAway for now I'm now sure to use AdGuard, I think consume a lot of battery...

But on some webs, show a pop-up about the adblock

I found this DNS filter list: https://github.com/Cybo1927/Hosts/blob/master/Hosts

Thanks

Thank you!

I just wanted to say thank you for these hosts.
I came upon them when I was searching for host files for Adguard. I wanted a lean host file tailored towards mobile apps (long host files really made my device slow)، and in-app browsers when rarley used. So adguard mobile ads and adguard mobile tracking and sypware hosts were the best choice for me (together are ≈ 1500 domains). In the end I found my self using the same host files as you.
I only added three more domains for ads to disappear completely:

pagead2.googleadservices.com
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
googleads.g.doubleclick.net

Really thanks for creating these hosts.

False positive

g.msn.com is required to save the bitlocker encryption key to Microsoft account.

List using: easylist 3rd party

Converter.php

Hi @r-a-y

I'm using your lovely converter.php script to import various sources into my search library https://github.com/external-sources/hosts-sources, however, do to what appears to be a bug in one of the sources https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Phishing.Database/ where the ALL-phishing-links.txt contains all the domains from ALL-phishing-domains.txt. I've come to the need to be able to import a lists full of URI's, while I can only use the plain domains. Is this a option you could build into the script?

I would be very happy, if you could help whit this feature, as I rely on it when I investigate domain

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Future note: Slowly, like very slowly, learning Rust language, and that project domain-hub is to take over hosts-sources

Hello how are you ?

Hello how are you ? I can paid support. How can connect request you ?

Excuse me

@r-a-y

AdguardMobileAds.txt
Can you manually add these ad hosts to the file to block the blockade?

admob.com
ad.ettoday.net
e.598md.cn
googletagservices.com
vj.quanjingpay.com

thanks!

question about 2b2d906 commit

hello,
about the commit:
2b2d906

and in the readme:

• Adguard Mobile Tracking and Spyware (from Adguard)
• Adguard Mobile Tracking and Spyware (from Adguard)

I think the first link should remain the same:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r-a-y/mobile-hosts/master/AdguardMobileSpyware.txt

since only the 2nd one has changed (the adguard one), yours remains the same, right?

thanks

Have a question

Hi,ray

@r-a-y

1."Adguard Mobile Ads"
Can you change this filter rule?
https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-ad-filters#mobile

2.Can you manually add the rules inside?

thank you!

Combine them into one?

Hey,
can you please combine them into one.

Remove duplicates from filter list

See StevenBlack/hosts#1181 (comment)

Duplicate domains can be created from the converter. Probably due to stripping some of the ad filter syntax rules is causing this.

To remove the duplicates, would have to either track all domains before generation or do a simple string comparison. Would probably try the latter approach first. This would increase the memory usage and conversion time though. (Update - the former approach worked better 😄 )

What should China add

Hello, what rules do you apply to China
The persondns filter is installed on my mobile phone
I find your rules don't work in blokada No effect

Hosts

Could you convert this filter list ?
https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/chromium/filters/13.txt

false positive

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r-a-y/mobile-hosts/master/EasyPrivacySpecific.txt

This list is blocking soundcloud.com, which is obviously not malicious.

[Feature Request] - Adguard Mobile Annoyances list

can we get adguards mobile app banner list coz app banners r not been block when using adguard mobile ads list
tested on : ADM , Ampere app using personalDNSfilter

Screenshot

Ampere app

Adguard Filter list : Mobile Ads Banner list

edit : tried to generate list using converter.php got this result

Output

# AdguardMobileAppBanner
#
# Converted from - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/FiltersRegistry/master/filters/filter_20_Annoyances_MobileApp/filter.txt
# Last converted - Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:25:28 +0000
#
0.0.0.0 br.app.link
0.0.0.0 ad.chatpad.jp
0.0.0.0 cdn.branch.io

false positive

mobile-hosts/EasyPrivacySpecific.txt

Line 227 in b3300d4

0.0.0.0 global.ssl.fastly.net

global.ssl.fastly.net is a false positive. it breaks https://shop.gandi.net/en/domain/suggest?search=google.com

easylist has the following:

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/5f3401eff0c52e1db27519b80cb346eb90d6aa32/easyprivacy/easyprivacy_specific.txt#L479

Remove list - EasyPrivacyCNAME

EasyPrivacy has split up their CNAME list into separate lists by provider. See easylist/easylist#18170.

I think Adguard's CNAME list covers most of EasyPrivacy's CNAME ones anyway. For example, here are a few commits where EasyPrivacy syncs with Adguard's CNAME list:

• easylist/easylist@3ffcc65
• easylist/easylist@d8c391f
• easylist/easylist@596a583

I'm going to be removing the EasyPrivacyCNAME list to prevent redundancy.