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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by Bedon292 on Monday August 29, 2022 @10:24AM (#32638670)
AdGuard Home is another option along with the PiHole another commented mentioned. I have that running at home forcing all port 53 traffic to it via the firewall. So ads are blocked on all devices on the network. So easy I sometimes forget I have it running and then I browse on mobile away from home and get bombarded with ads and am reminded why I do it.

They do also have their own paid DNS service, but I haven't attempted to use it. Might be a way to deal with mobile better.

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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by tksb on Monday August 29, 2022 @11:01AM (#32639131)
For what it's worth, the "sometimes forget I have it running and then I browse on mobile away from home and get bombarded with ads" bothered me enough personally to attempt to smooth it over. Ended up using Tailscale DNS so that every device on my tailnet/VPN benefits. It was painless and has been solid for ~4mo now.
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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by chrisfinazzo on Monday August 29, 2022 @10:54AM (#32639044)
For this reason alone, I am seriously tempted by PiHole's companion, PiVPN. Browsing without this protection just seems crazy to me.
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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by hendersoon on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:05PM (#32640647)
I keep my phone VPN'd to my home network via wireguard 100% of the time, pointing at my AdGuard Home hosts for DNS. This works great, the beauty of wireguard is it reconnects in under a second so it's never annoying.

You do need a reasonable upload speed to do this, though. Otherwise I guess you could use an "always free" VM at Oracle or something.

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Re:Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers by Bedon292 on Monday August 29, 2022 @07:58PM (#32645060)
Yeah, definitely thinking about doing something similar. Was wondering about something like Zero Tier as well. I just don't use my phone all that much away from home, so it hasn't been up on the priority list.
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