Ad block solution for Android! No install necessary!

[sam_gordon]

I get the Dis needs ads to support the site. But they have all but taken over... often interrupting typing in replies. I have Ad blocks on my computers, but haven't found something that works on phone/tablet (using Chrome).

Now, maybe I have. I've been using it for a couple of hours and the Dis is nice and speedy and there's no ads.

It looks easy to change back also if there's another website with issues.

To try it yourself (for Android users): Go "Settings" and search "Private DNS". You should get a link that will take you to the setting for it.

It's probably set to "Automatic". Change it to "Private DNS Hostname", put dns.adguard-dns.com in and Save.



That's it! The website I found it on said you may have websites with blank spaces where ads would go, but not the ads themselves.

I have not tried it on sites that ask you to disable your ad blocker (can't remember them off the top of my head), but for the DIS, it seems great!

 

[kdonnel]

To build on your post, if you are at all technological, I suggest network wide ad blocking with Pi-hole.

https://pi-hole.net/

It can be installed on a Raspberry Pi, really any Linux computer, or run via Docker.

Once configured any device connected to your network gets the same DNS style ad blocking in sam_gordon's post. It does not matter if the device is connected via wifi or ethernet. It does not matter if the device is a TV, phone(Android or iOS or other), Mac, Windows, or Linux computer, tablet, etc.

There are times where you have to either turn it off or spend some time figuring out what to whitelist to make some websites work because those sites serve up important parts of their website from the same hostnames that are also used to send ads and telemetry.

But for 99% of the time, you browse the internet ad free, or at least greatly ad reduced while also not sending back all the telemetry(spy data) that modern iot devices collect and send back to their manufacturers.

And then for sites where you are asked to disable your ad blocker use the Chrome extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/behind-the-overlay/ljipkdpcjbmhkdjjmbbaggebcednbbme?pli=1

 

[sam_gordon]

My issue was on my phone/tablet when I may not be on my home network.

 

[kdonnel]

My issue was on my phone/tablet when I may not be on my home network.

I didn't cover that part, but I have my phone set to VPN to my home. As long as the VPN is connected, my phone is using my home Pi-hole server for DNS resolution.

And you can use the ad guard DNS servers on your computers/devices at home as well without installing any software.

Just need to configure your network connection to use the the ad guard DNS servers. There would just not be an easy switch to turn it off/on when you wanted to use the non-filtering servers. You would be the switch by swaping out the desired DNS servers.

If your ISP lets your control the DNS servers sent out via DHCP or you are using your own router, you can just set the DNS there and it gets distributed to all your devices.