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4wd:
Isn't it that ABPfA is acting as a proxy on Android?

Therefore practically all your tablets traffic is going to appear to be originating from that app.

mouser:
Appears to be an issue that has been raised before:

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11849

https://adblockplus.org/en/android-faq
Why does Adblock Plus appear to consume so much traffic?
To filter ads, all traffic has to pass through Adblock Plus. Android considers this to be the traffic caused by the app, while it is in reality the sum of all traffic.
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Note that the posters on that thread still don't seem in agreement about the nature of the bandwidth.. some say adblock plus is eating bandwidth, some say its just a reporting problem..

4wd:
FWIW, I use AdAway which updates the hosts file to loopback any ad servers - probably not as all-encompassing as ABPfA is supposed to be but then it doesn't use any CPU cycles or data unless I'm running it to update the hosts file.

Deozaan:
Appears to be an issue that has been raised before:

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11849

https://adblockplus.org/en/android-faq
Why does Adblock Plus appear to consume so much traffic?
To filter ads, all traffic has to pass through Adblock Plus. Android considers this to be the traffic caused by the app, while it is in reality the sum of all traffic.
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Note that the posters on that thread still don't seem in agreement about the nature of the bandwidth.. some say adblock plus is eating bandwidth, some say its just a reporting problem..
-mouser (March 04, 2015, 06:20 PM)
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That link led to this one, which may be a major contributor to the issues I'm noticing:

I installed Adblock Plus yesterday before watching some streaming video in MxPlayer on the bus ride home. After seeking a few times to get to my place in the video, I was able to watch a few minutes of video, but was running into major buffering issues. I got through maybe 5 minutes of video over 15-20 minutes. After, I stopped watching the video, I noticed that Adblock Plus was still downloading.

When I got home, I saw that Adblock Plus had used 550MB of data, over the half hour that I had it installed. The entire video would have been around 200MB. I'm wondering if there is an issue with Adblock Plus not terminating connections, and that it continued to download the different parts of the video stream after I had seeked to a different position. This would explain the bandwidth usage and the buffering issues. There were no other applications installed that would have been using that much data. After uninstalling Adblock Plus, the issue went away.-https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=11790
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It seems Adblock may not terminate the connection when dealing with streaming video, so if you do any seeking, the video will continue to download to completion from where you were before seeking, as well as to the place you were after seeking. And if you seek multiple times, you're creating multiple simultaneous download streams that eat up data like crazy!

FWIW, I use AdAway which updates the hosts file to loopback any ad servers - probably not as all-encompassing as ABPfA is supposed to be but then it doesn't use any CPU cycles or data unless I'm running it to update the hosts file.
-4wd (March 04, 2015, 06:39 PM)
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I've used AdAway and AdFree in the past, but for some reason I can't get them to block ads anymore, so that's why I installed ABDfA. In fact, I still have AdAway and Adfree installed. Yet nothing seems to block ads on my Nexus 7 2013 so I guess I might as well uninstall it all.

4wd:
What ads are you talking about?

Ones that appear in the browser(s) or that are pushed through to apps?

Just asking because I rarely see any ads, apps that don't need net access are blocked via the firewall from ever accessing the net, (even if they think they do need it).

There's also various AirPush ad framework detectors if you want to see what apps are using them.  (After running New AirPush Detector over my tablet all it could find was K-9 Email which pushes notifications).

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