• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    I have never gotten DNS ad blocking or any other option for android to work to block ads in android apps globally. The only thing I can block ads on my phone with is the browser, since I use FireFox.

    And I can’t exactly take a pihole with me and use it over mobile data.

    Then again, I do try to use FOSS apps that don’t have ads to begin with.

    • ButteryMonkey@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      If you use pihole, you just need to forward port 53 to block the fallback dns built into android. Even blocks ads in games and other apps.

      I spent a long time trying to figure that one out, but the port forward worked like a charm.

      And while you can’t take the pihole with you, many routers support creating VPNs so you can stay on your home network all the time to use the pihole.

      Here’s a Reddit post about it, though it’s more about firewall stuff it has good info about how it works.

    • LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      You can change the “private DNS” setting on Android and configure it to use a public ad blocking DNS server. I use it when I’m on mobile/away from my pihole and it works well enough. Definitely better than raw dogging the open Internet.

    • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      If you set up wireguard on your home network you can actually take pi-hole with you, and hide your mobile data traffic from your cell provider :P

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
      2·
      15 hours ago

      This is an easy ad blocking solution on Android.

      Changing the DNS blocks ads systemwide, but sometimes causes problems with certain apps/content. It’s easier to have an app to toggle on/off and set whitelists as you need.

      Basically I’m saying: it’s absolutely right that ads are a scourge. None of us should have to put up with this bullshit.