What you can do is install wireguard server at home and then set your phone to use that wireguard connection always. That's what I do and then my pihole at home filters all my mobile traffic as well.

[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I usually have a private vpn. It’s just isn’t always up. And I can’t be bothered to have it maintained most times because I’m not in control.

I’m considering setting it up through my router which has a built in option, so I don’t have to rely on my third party, but honestly I almost never leave pihole protected networks. So not a priority.

[–] AeroLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You don't need an entire VPN just to block ads. I use RethinkDNS on Android and it blocks ads in most apps.

[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The vpn doesn’t block ads or do really anything, it just routes all my traffic back to my home network so I’m using my pihole for DNS.

I’m not about to install even more crap to do a half-ass job when I could just renew my certificate and pass it along for config, and be done with it and never get ads in any app, home or not.

I’m just lazy, and it doesn’t really come up all that often.