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I can VPN to my home ad blocking network from anywhere, have more insights into my home network shenanigans, and still use my personal block list built over years. Super easy and most importantly, done.
It's functions similar to other mobile ad-blockers in that it can route all your phones traffic over a VPN tunnel it establishes. But the ad-blocking vpn server is 127.0.0.1, so perhaps, like it says all the blocking happens right on your phone. This is what I've been waiting for if this works. Still getting ads on instagram though.
Apple forced the developer to "upgrade" it to use DNS based blocking and provide no lists of adservers, which pretty much let everything back through.
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If you use a pay-as-you-go network like Google Fi, and it saves you more than 1 GB, then it saves you money.
$10 for 1GB?!
It looks like the block lists are really short (https://github.com/confirmedcode/Lockdown-Mac/tree/master/Bl...).
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On Android, DNS66 does exactly this, available on F-Droid. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
As does NetGuard, both on the Play store and F-Droid: https://www.netguard.me/ A paid upgrade to the Play store version lets you filter traffic like adblock, or just use the releases from Github (they allow filtering, but not most pro features)
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As does NetGuard, both on the Play store and F-Droid: https://www.netguard.me/ A paid upgrade to the Play store version lets you filter traffic like adblock, or just use the releases from Github (they allow filtering, but not most pro features)
Do you have any tips on how to set up NetGuard well? I use an app now called "NoRoot Firewall" that lets me filter on ip address or url and also port, with wildcards. (Ex. *.facebook.com). I cannot find a way to set up NetGuard since it appears to me that I can only decide on each request, which makes it near impossible to ever whitelist/blacklist something like AWS, which uses an ever rotating number of locations.
It's functions similar to other mobile ad-blockers in that it can route all your phones traffic over a VPN tunnel it establishes. But the ad-blocking vpn server is 127.0.0.1, so perhaps, like it says all the blocking happens right on your phone. This is what I've been waiting for if this works. Still getting ads on instagram though.
Is it possible to import such rules to Little Snitch? That's the go to firewall on macOS, though it is proprietary. There's also LuLu, a FOSS firewall for macOS. [2]
Now, from my memory, these block lists did cost quite some memory on a machine with 512 MB RAM. Even though it'd do dedup. What one could also do is build up a VPN with a remote server (in the cloud, or at home) and use say use WireGuard to have a secure connection while using a remote DNS on the VPN to get ads blocked.
[1] https://www.linuxincluded.com/block-ads-malvertising-on-pfse...
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> With TLS and it surely not mitm-ing connections, that's all it can do correct? Unless it also acts as a web-proxy, yes.
It can possibly access all your activity, contacts, microphone, and camera... Hard pass from me at the moment. :/
Camera and mic? How does it do this as a vpn? I see no requests for such things in iOS settings for the app.