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Block Ads in Apps on Android

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182 points whalabi | 1 comments | 20 Feb 19 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Fnoord ◴[20 Feb 19 15:35 UTC] No.19208623[source]▶
I'm using Pi-Hole on an Ubiquiti router together with WireGuard and DNSSEC. My Synology NAS is backup (with regards to the DNS-based Pi-Hole blocking) taking the adblocking load off the router (there's no redundancy for WireGuard endpoint though). I don't (need) to use a RPi anymore. It works extremely well for me, and all my clients also get to connect to Nextcloud running on the Synology.

My setup does far more than just blocking ads, and works transparent as long as the client is connected through WireGuard (which works seamlessly over LTE and public WiFi).

That being said, I really like how Blokada and DNS66 are available in F-Droid [1] [2], and require minimal technical knowledge to set up. The more [ad blocking], the merrier.

As a backup measure I use Firefox with uBlock. The only machine I don't use uBlock is on Kali because I want to see the website exactly as it is being served.

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.blokada.alarm/

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/

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DFXLuna ◴[20 Feb 19 17:35 UTC] No.19209864[source]▶
I've been considering setting up pihole on my home server for a while but I've always been worried that it would break a website for a non-technical family member while I wasn't there to fix it. How has your experience with website breakage been?

Also, how has your experience with wire guard been? I've been using my vpn's default client on all my individual devices out of convenience but after looking at the wire guard website I can see the appeal.

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1. Fnoord ◴[20 Feb 19 17:52 UTC] No.19210073[source]▶
My partner sometimes has a website which breaks, especially when she's shopping online. Which you could consider a Good Thing. For me, the website which breaks is AliExpress. Specifically, the pictures don't load. Quad9 by default also blocks porn websites. For me, that's intentional, but YMMV.

My experience with WireGuard has been fantastic. The configuration is straightforward (way less complex than OpenVPN), wg-quick(8) is ace, the macOS and Android UIs work very well. The performance is great (both throughput and latency, even of the userspace ports). You only need very minimal, basic knowledge about networking and public key cryptography.

I got some minor complaints. For example the VPN is gone on Android when the app gets updated, and there's no official Windows client (though I don't use Windows right now). The EdgeOS port is sometimes out-of-date but its made by a 3rd party. And, compared to ZeroTier (where I was coming from) I miss out on a nice website configuration, but I get back a CLI one.