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People who use Adguard home or pie hole along with a vpn at router level, do you use any firewall apps on your phone aswell? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is aimed at iOS users more, but do any of you use any firewall apps like 1 blocker fire wall or adguard dns.

The reason I’m asking is if you have all them things at router level what good does it do on a device level?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

On iOS, I’ve tried quite a few combinations and I’ve gotten feedback from users with others.

When I ran pi-hole or AdGuard home, I also used AdGuard on all my iOS devices - both the DNS pseudo-VPN and safari extensions cause otherwise ads would sneak in. The Adguard app removes the annoying ads from Apple News and NYT apps.

Now I just use NextDNS and the same AdGuard iOS app setup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Interesting, do you or would you recommend a vpn at router level though?

Because forgive me if I’m wrong but if you use a vpn at router level then use adguard dns on the device which creates a vpn profile, wouldn’t that leak your data?

Or would you recommend no vpn on router and just use adguard home, with nextdns as the resolver or upstream?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t run VPNs at the router level. The speed and latency hit, plus the spambot triggers aren’t worth it for me. This is purely a non-privacy minded preference, mind you, and I’m totally not an expert.

You bring up a good point though. Regardless of what’s running upstream, if my device is running private relay, it all gets bypassed. So I have to disable private relay.

My preference is to run nextdns over DoH, AdGuard locally on iOS + Stop the Madness, and a VPN when I’m feeling sheepish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That makes sense, is it possible to use advised dns along with a vpn on iOS? I’m sure I read it somewhere but I don’t remember.

It does suck however that if you use private relay it doesn’t work very well.