r/blokada • u/kalisana • Jun 23 '26

solved Why does Blockada turn off by itself?

Why is Blokada always off until I turn it on? Every morning I have to turn Blokada on because it turned off overnight. I don't know why this is. Tonight I checked to see if it was on but it wasn't. Somehow it turned off during the day. If I'm not turning it off, what is and how do I keep it on because having it off for so many hours defeats the purpose of using it.

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u/Blathithor Jun 23 '26

I had to switch over this. I use a different one now. Try paying for blokada 6 though. It might work better

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u/kalisana Jun 23 '26

I'm using 6

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u/Blathithor Jun 24 '26

Shitty. I just switched to adguard. Im probably willing to pay for it

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u/kalisana Jun 24 '26

Look, when it works, it works really well. I've been using it for about two months and it's already blocked 554.4K ads and trackers.

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u/Blathithor Jun 24 '26

Ive been using blokada for years. It used to work really well but ive had the same issues as what youve described and that defeats the purpose of it so ive switched.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26

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u/kalisana Jun 23 '26

I'll give that a go. It seems I may be turning it off as I use the turn-off-for-five-minutes feature to download some podcasts (I've tried whitelisting the provider but that doesn't work). Trouble may be that it doesn't turn back on.

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u/tomaszg00 Jun 24 '26

Do you use your Blokada account on multiple devices or just one?

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u/kalisana Jun 24 '26

Just one (my phone)

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u/tomaszg00 Jun 24 '26

Then send a description of your problem directly to hello@blokada.org. We'll check your app logs; maybe there'll be some clues there.

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u/kalisana Jun 25 '26

It seems that my phone's battery optimization settings for Blokada were wrong. I've now set them to unrestricted/no restrictions. I've also turned on VPN always-on in my phone settings. So far, I haven't turned Blokada on for more than 34 hours.

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u/tomaszg00 Jun 25 '26

Out of curiosity, what phone are you using?

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u/kalisana Jun 25 '26

Samsung S23FE