diff --git a/play-services-ads/core/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/dynamite/descriptors/com/google/android/gms/ads/dynamite/ModuleDescriptor.java b/play-services-ads/core/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/dynamite/descriptors/com/google/android/gms/ads/dynamite/ModuleDescriptor.java
index 7a14482b94..f147bc76dd 100644
--- a/play-services-ads/core/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/dynamite/descriptors/com/google/android/gms/ads/dynamite/ModuleDescriptor.java
+++ b/play-services-ads/core/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/dynamite/descriptors/com/google/android/gms/ads/dynamite/ModuleDescriptor.java
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 import android.content.Context;
 import android.content.ContextWrapper;
-import android.util.Log;
 import android.webkit.WebSettings;
 import androidx.annotation.Keep;
 
@@ -16,9 +15,17 @@ public class ModuleDescriptor {
     public static final String MODULE_ID = "com.google.android.gms.ads.dynamite";
     public static final int MODULE_VERSION = 230500001;
 
-    public static void init(ContextWrapper context) {
-        Context baseContext = context.getBaseContext();
-        WebSettings.getDefaultUserAgent(baseContext);
-        Log.d("ModuleDescriptor", "init: context: " + baseContext);
+    /**
+     * The ads module might try to access the user agent, requiring initialization on the main thread,
+     * which may result in deadlocks when invoked from any other thread. This only happens with microG,
+     * because we don't use the highly privileged SELinux Sandbox that regular Play Services uses
+     * (which allows apps to read the user-agent from Play Services instead of the WebView). To prevent
+     * the issue we pre-emptively initialize the WebView.
+     */
+    public static void init(Context context) {
+        if (context instanceof ContextWrapper) {
+            context = ((ContextWrapper) context).getBaseContext();
+        }
+        WebSettings.getDefaultUserAgent(context);
     }
 }
diff --git a/play-services-core/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/chimera/container/DynamiteModuleInfo.java b/play-services-core/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/chimera/container/DynamiteModuleInfo.java
index 9f25008f24..bad67c00a5 100644
--- a/play-services-core/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/chimera/container/DynamiteModuleInfo.java
+++ b/play-services-core/src/main/java/com/google/android/gms/chimera/container/DynamiteModuleInfo.java
@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Collections;
 
-import static android.content.Context.CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY;
-import static android.content.Context.CONTEXT_INCLUDE_CODE;
-import android.content.ContextWrapper;
+import android.content.Context;
 
 public class DynamiteModuleInfo {
     private Class<?> descriptor;
@@ -53,9 +51,9 @@ public Collection<String> getMergedClasses() {
         }
     }
 
-    public void init(ContextWrapper dynamiteContext) {
+    public void init(Context dynamiteContext) {
         try {
-            descriptor.getMethod("init", ContextWrapper.class).invoke(null, dynamiteContext);
+            descriptor.getMethod("init", Context.class).invoke(null, dynamiteContext);
         } catch (Exception e) {
             // Ignore
         }