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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by pmontra on Monday August 29, 2022 @09:10AM (#32637752)
For all the love I have for Blockada I'm not going to send my traffic through their cloud. I wonder if I can run something like PiHole on a VPS somewhere so that I can protect my devices both when I'm at home on WiFi and when I'm outside on 4G. I'll investigate but does anybody already experienced such a setup?
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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by wmeredith on Monday August 29, 2022 @09:17AM (#32637831)
The Pi-hole docs have a an article on setting up a VPN for your pi-hole so you can use it from anywhere: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/openvpn/overview/
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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by cricalix on Monday August 29, 2022 @09:13AM (#32637779)
Tailscale have a knowledgebase article on doing it - https://tailscale.com/kb/1114/pi-hole/

There's probably other ways.

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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by tssva on Monday August 29, 2022 @09:51AM (#32638230)
I have been using this setup for about 3 months and it works great.
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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by mtremsal on Monday August 29, 2022 @02:06PM (#32641396)
That's exactly the problem I had while traveling this month. I just posted about my setup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32512576 -- so far it's been great.

See also nextdns.io for a turnkey alternative.

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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by qdl on Monday August 29, 2022 @09:25AM (#32637921)
there is easy to setup options like wirehole

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

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