Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.

• DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Private DNS FTW!

  dns.adguard.com

  On Android:

  1. Swipe down and select settings (the gear)
  2. Search for: DNS
  3. Select Private DNS.
  4. Select Private DNS again.
  5. Select Private DNS provider hostname.
  6. Enter: dns.adguard.com
  7. Select Save
  8. Enjoy most ads being blocked in apps.
  9. Might work poorly on public wifi (Walmart wifi for example doesn’t work with a private DNS set).

  On Apple:

  1. Fuck if I know.

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  • Borkingheck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everytime I use this my WiFi stops working on my mobile.

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    • flumph@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you tried other private DNS servers? Curious if your Internet provider is blocking specific servers or DNS over HTTPS.

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    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not sure why that would be. 🤷

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    • Pretzilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For me it works 95%, then throws that error randomly.

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    • TruTollTroll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same here… I had to go turn it off… why is that…

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  • Pretzilla@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I heard there are security concerns with this as adguard cannot be fully trusted. Anyone got the scoop?

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    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Your traffic is going through them instead of your ISPs DNS. Which do you trust more?

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  • ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are doing the lord’s work

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  • treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks!

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• MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As an app developer some people just get hard for an app and don’t know why they would want one.

  It’s rarely some big plan just an ego thing

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If DNS ad blockers get popular enough, there are easy enough workarounds. The workarounds have tradeoffs such as security or stability, but they’ll serve the ads for at least the current year.

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• dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unless someone makes a router that does that in firmware, there’s a lot of people who won’t bother.

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  • flumph@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly, the thing keeping me from rolling it out to my family is that it isn’t easy to override when you do want to see a site. Folks understand turning off uBlock Origin (or clicking proceed). I’ve only used Pi-Hole and NextDNS, but they really need a browser extension that will provide a better error message and an option to allow with a DNS cache clear.

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  • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Eero does but you have to pay a subscription fee and it’s an Amazon product.

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    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So, blocks all ads but Amazon ads?

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