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The article is AdGuard centric but it sheds light on the whole process where Google suddenly decided to ban ad blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Anyone have a reco for a good FOSS android adblocker?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Was using DNS66 and switched to Rethink DNS. At home I just run Infoblox with RPZ feeds to block ads.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Adguard DNS is my go to, but it's mostly because it's easy to recommend

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There is no need for an actual installed adblocker. You can simply change system wide DNS to block ads. You can really use any DNS you choose, but I'd suggest mullvads DNS.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/

Look for "private DNS" on your phone, or switch it on your browser if on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Mullvad for 2 years and only just now realized I could turns ads off on my phone with a literal click of a button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

IIRC the ad blocker toggles for Mullvad VPN on android were added this year.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Pi-Hole + VPN. Connect to the VPN via the phone, having all the data that hits your phone passing through your Pi-Hole first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look forward to the replies on this one.

On my desktop, I haven't seen an ad in ages, they really piss me off. But on my phone I just seem to suffer through them.

At home I really should set up a pi hole I guess. But that doesn't solve it when out and about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

ive got ublock on ff for web, then instander on IG which is the only app I use with ads

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Install PiVPN on the same Pi running Pi-hole and you can use your Pi-hole anywhere you go (plus you can also access any device on your home LAN).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Netguard has network filtering as a paid feature. It has a pretty steep learning curve, but very full featured.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

€ 0.10 or more

yes, it's "paid" 👉 10 cents

if you read the faq once, you have all your responses. It's not fair to call it a steep learning curve

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using Dns66 since 2017. I tried blokada (from GitHub) and didn't like it. Haven't tried others, so I'm also curious what other folks are using.