[*] [Android] inShorts App (reoccurring ads)

[jineshpatel30]

InShorts:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nis.app




Full screen reoccurring ads (changes every day or two)

Find log in attachment.
Edit : New Logs with "log everything"

High Quality VPN filter.

PS : if you try app for 1st time there's good chance you will not get ads on first few runs/days as (I Think) developers use some kind of trick to allow usage without ads for few runs (how many not specified anywhere) but once ads starts it's keep reoccurring every few post and keep changing everything day (Pic, GIF & Video like today's anything)

So please figure out the way to stop this

PPS : I reported same issue on XDA around 6 months ago but doesn't seem to be attained.

 

[Alex302]

Not reproduced. I need step-by-step instruction.
Try

||custom-card.inshorts.com/card/view/$app=com.nis.app

check it for few days.

 

[jineshpatel30]

Not reproduced. I need step-by-step instruction.
Try

||custom-card.inshorts.com/card/view/$app=com.nis.app

check it for few days.

as expected , as i said it's due to app doesn't show ads for initial few runs.

I'll try the code and let you know.

btw if ad url requested being logged in "log everything" you can find it in 2nd logs and may be it'll help.

 

[jineshpatel30]

Not reproduced. I need step-by-step instruction.
Try

||custom-card.inshorts.com/card/view/$app=com.nis.app

check it for few days.

Adding rule turns ad pages in blank page but at same time while coming to those blank page, app auto opens re-directional urls like below in chrome (which is odd as app doesn't give option to open links in external browser for it's content )

http://custom-card.inshorts.com/card/view/8df5c8f0-2208-47d5-9e06-1873f9589627?device_id=cc784e6a-96fc-4393-9081-3275cd9c7983
http://custom-card.inshorts.com/card/view/28c7bfbf-6f47-4cb2-8f49-b113a8a0b0e2?device_id=cc784e6a-96fc-4393-9081-3275cd9c7983
http://custom-card.inshorts.com/card/view/0f0fc6c0-c04c-404b-bf95-e9648dcde3b2?device_id=cc784e6a-96fc-4393-9081-3275cd9c7983

 

[Alex302]

I need HAR file
https://kb.adguard.com/en/android/solving-problems/har

 

[jineshpatel30]

I need HAR file
https://kb.adguard.com/en/android/solving-problems/har

find both HAR & full logs with today's new beta update.

There was 2 different reoccurring ads cards in this run (luckily) so it'll hep you find pattern as well.

 

[Alex302]

Please check separately:

||read-api.newsinshorts.com/*/hash_id/$important,~script,replace=/"dont_show_ad":false/"dont_show_ad":true/

and

||read-api.newsinshorts.com/*/hash_id/$important,~script,replace=/{"card_id[\s\S]+?(_ads_card)[\s\S]+?("webview_link_handler":"external"})\,/

Remove the first before checkin the second.

 

[jineshpatel30]

Please check separately:

||read-api.newsinshorts.com/*/hash_id/$important,~script,replace=/"dont_show_ad":false/"dont_show_ad":true/

and

||read-api.newsinshorts.com/*/hash_id/$important,~script,replace=/{"card_id[\s\S]+?(_ads_card)[\s\S]+?("webview_link_handler":"external"})\,/

Remove the first before checkin the second.

Didn't work (any of them)

Find today's HAR in attachment, today there were 5 different kind of ad cards so it might help finding pattern.
(Day by day they are increasing ads ..lol )

 

[Alex302]

I need HAR with screenshots of current ads.

 

[jineshpatel30]

I need HAR with screenshots of current ads.

I recently switched ROM and clean install in-shorts so for now i'm on initial ad-free period and not getting ads, once they starts again will post

 

[jineshpatel30]

Please check separately:

||read-api.newsinshorts.com/*/hash_id/$important,~script,replace=/"dont_show_ad":false/"dont_show_ad":true/

and

||read-api.newsinshorts.com/*/hash_id/$important,~script,replace=/{"card_id[\s\S]+?(_ads_card)[\s\S]+?("webview_link_handler":"external"})\,/

Remove the first before checkin the second.

After clean install, 1st rule seems blocking ads properly (i didn't check 2nd as 1st one seems working)

So add it to default list.

 

[Alex302]

Added

 

[jineshpatel30]

Added

Rule is not working after all. I thought it's working but turned out it was just app's initial ad free period.

Anyway @Alex302 find new HAR with SS at below link.

https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZ6nDX7ZESSLfv3FHYY7eqDwawCTa81qH5I7


Words/things to look in HAR,

Donut
Philips
indiabulls
zeecafe
etc.....

google ads
facebook ads
double click ads
etc......

 

[Alex302]

Please check this rule:

||read-api.newsinshorts.com/en/v2/news/$replace=/{"hash_id":"[a-z0-9-]+"\,"rank":[0-9]+\,"version":\d\,"type":"CUSTOM_CARD"\,"read_override":true\,"fixed_rank":true}\,/

 

[jineshpatel30]

Please check this rule:

||read-api.newsinshorts.com/en/v2/news/$replace=/{"hash_id":"[a-z0-9-]+"\,"rank":[0-9]+\,"version":\d\,"type":"CUSTOM_CARD"\,"read_override":true\,"fixed_rank":true}\,/

Not working..same ads.

(cleared cache before checking)

 

[Alex302]

Maybe ads are requested in the other way. The code, where my rule works, contais only similar sections, I can't find ads uniquely, and the rule is dangerous...

 

[jineshpatel30]

Maybe ads are requested in the other way. The code, where my rule works, contais only similar sections, I can't find ads uniquely, and the rule is dangerous...

No issue, Facebook provided ads are always pain in a**.
I will keep an eye and see if there's pattern in HAR.

Mean while they started App opening Ad as well in latest 4.2 version.

Btw you may want to remove, the below rule you have added in default list, it's of no use as of now.

||read-api.newsinshorts.com/*/hash_id/$important,~script,replace=/"dont_show_ad":false/"dont_show_ad":true/