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Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by martin_a on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:50AM (#20411927)
Pi-hole or alike. Works very well for me, although I'm experiencing some problems with it. I'm a bad system administrator, though.
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Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by dwighttk on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:08AM (#20412086)
does that work when you are away from home wifi? (not sure what all pi-hole does)
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Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by jki275 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:22AM (#20412218)
You could set up a vpn to your home network to use it I suppose, otherwise no, it doesn't.

pihole is nothing more than a dns blocker for your home network.

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Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by yegle on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:40AM (#20412386)
Run a DNS-over-TLS server on top of pihole and use the Private DNS feature available in Android P.

https://github.com/yegle/your-dns

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Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by martin_a on Friday July 12, 2019 @09:48AM (#20420684)
Set up a VPN for that with Vultr. $5 a month, that's okay for me.
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Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi... by Godel_unicode on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:12AM (#20412126)
It does if you also run a VPN, although that has battery life implications.
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