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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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jonwinstanley ◴[20 Feb 19 15:37 UTC] No.19208644[source]▶
So you're sending ALL your internet traffic through a VPN, that you know nothing about? Sounds like the craziest idea I've ever heard.

Who owns the VPN? What are they doing with your data?

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citiguy ◴[20 Feb 19 16:22 UTC] No.19209119[source]▶
I have a pi-hole running on a Digital Ocean Droplet and have a secure vpn to that. Both run out of docker containers, so theoretically they could run anywhere. It works great and only costs me $5/month. No ads anymore either, and I figure DO probably doesn't care too much about my web traffic - though maybe I'm wrong on that.

The only thing that is slightly annoying is that the iPhone seems to drop the VPN from time to time. If only there was a way to work that out....

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1. jjakque ◴[20 Feb 19 23:53 UTC] No.19213282[source]▶
> The only thing that is slightly annoying is that the iPhone seems to drop the VPN from time to time. If only there was a way to work that out....

I recall NordVPN on iOS used to do that and I took it as a norm. Perhaps a year ago after few iOS and apps, I noticed that not only the time takes for connecting dropped, the drop rate also decreased a lot.

Not directly answer the question, but this made me think that there is a way...