Is Discover Feed Filter safe?

Discover Feed Filter cleans up Google Discover, the news feed on the Pixel Launcher -1 screen and inside the Google app. What it removes: - Sponsored cards and ads, dropped before they reach the feed - Clickbait, with your own filters. Hide stories by headline or source, plain text or regex, starting from the built-in clickbait presets - Google's share.google redirect links. Shared articles use t…

Developer: hxreborn
Category: System
Earliest archived version: 30 Aug 2026
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

08 Oct 2026

1.4.0

Material 3 Expressive look with Google Sans Flex type, flexible top bars and roomier cards Shaped status badges and wavy scan progress on the dashboard and in Diagnostics German clickbait filter pack on GitHub, thanks to DexKit updated to 2.3.0

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30 Aug 2026

1.3.0

Renamed to Discover Feed Filter News filters hide stories by headline or source, with clickbait presets, import and export Importable filter packs in English and Spanish on GitHub Counts hidden clickbait next to blocked ads Separate switch for ad hiding on the dashboard Redesigned dashboard…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDeu.hxreborn.discoveradsfilter

Latest APK SHA-256abbf89d3dc5f2a6a0fdc2f0ac44d1db661bf92cf57e964256903d03d7bc25d50

Signing certificate32:B9:8D:C7:09:A7:EE:15:FA:E0:73:49:3A:1A:EC:A5:D4:28:31:6C:C0:D8:B8:F8:78:EE:D6:4B:A3:7F:32:97

MIN ANDROID30TARGET36ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.3.0 (30 Aug 2026), latest 1.4.0 (08 Oct 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 1.3.0 and 1.4.0.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.4.008 Oct 202630+arm64-v8a→1.3.030 Aug 202630+arm64-v8a→

06 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceBinary repo · fdroid

Permissions1 declared · 0 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNonFreeDep

Sensitive accessNo sensitive permissions

Declared permissions

eu.hxreborn.discoveradsfilter.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

07 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗