I’m talking full phone and blocking. Not just browser.
Edit: So many options! Thanks guys I’ll go through them all and see what one I think will work best for me. I appreciate it.
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Pihole on the home network and my phone has constant VPN connection to the home network via Wireguard.
How much battery do you think this consumes? I’ve always thought an always on VPN set up but never tried it as I assumed it would drain the battery too quickly.
The battery consumption is negligible. I use Invisible Pro with so many different types of blocks and circumventions that it’s almost ridiculous, and it runs at about a 3% in 24 hours. Invisible Pro has to be way up on the battery sucking scale for similar products.
I have the same configuration running on all my devices, my kids and my wife’s too, it’s wonderful.
Did you use a guide to configure it all? I’d love to get started but networking has always been a weak spot for me
This is the way.
My personal favorite is RethinkDNS, which is technically capable of running your favorite VPN provider alongside blocking ads and blocking/logging domains on a per-app basis.
It’s a bit frustrating to set up for my taste, but it definitely works. (Kudos to Mozilla for sponsoring their project, BTW.)
It also works with Orbot
RethinkDNS is super awesome! 🙌
AdAway is amazing. I’ve used the rooted version for 10 years now and it just works
You want a DNS based adblocker. I like nextdns because I can customise it.
Can you customise it down to the domain?
If you mean blocking specific websites, then yes. It’s in the parental control section
Nice. I use Mullvad DNS for the same purpose.
They seem to have many different endpoints depending on what you want to block, which is customizable only down to the type of content. Ads, trackers, malware, adult content, gambling, social media.
If I understand it properly, they have 64 different endpoints for their DNS. But I’m not sure if all of these are publicly facing or if you have to be connected via their VPN service for all of them to be accessible.
RethinkDNS is a great option unless you already have something in place that you want to use as well.
For example, I have a pi-hole and a server that I’d like to use 24/7. There’s a few ways to do it, but I’m an idiot and need a simple, hard-to-ruin method. So I use the pi-hole as an exit node with TailScale
AdGuard. You can get a lifetime license through stack social for anywhere between $16-$30. It also does HTTPS filtering.
Mullvad DNS or libredns
uBlock Origin on Mull browser (if not Firefox), Mullvad DNS or NextDNS for “Private DNS” (its DNS-over-HTTPS iirc) if you are not rooted
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Probably a good VPN with adblocking features. Iirc, protonvpn and mullvad do this pretty well. I’ve tried the dns methods like other people mention and on some public networks, it won’t work because they force a specific dns so you need to vpn for it to work.
Proton VPN , or just change DNS to DNS.adguard.com
