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This is really neat and I had thought about doing this when I acquired a new Android device that I don't have root on. Alternatively, a program was made to hos

by dvno42 10y ago

This is really neat and I had thought about doing this when I acquired a new Android device that I don't have root on. Alternatively, a program was made to host a DNS process on the phone in userland that downloads blacklists as well as uses external well known nameservers. Then use build in VPN client to redirect all DNS queries through to the daemon. DNS66 has been doing a fine job since I started using it last week. https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66

SeriousM 10y ago
Thanks for pointing out this open source tool! There are many with similar functionality but none of them are open, and I don't trust closed source when it creates a VPN tunnel :)
Splines 10y ago
I use Netguard (https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard) and found it to be better polished than DNS66, check it out if you're interested, I'm a happy user.
- aorth 10y ago
  I also use this and prefer it to DNS66 because I can use a hosts file rather than just changing the DNS server. Both work well though. Oh, and both are open source!
  - e40 10y ago
    When I look at it in F-Droid I see: the upstream source code is not entirely free. What does that mean?
tomaskafka 10y ago
If that's a Samsung with Knox, you can use Adhell without rooting (recommending as a happy user): https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/5aovzp/adhell_ads_and_tracker_blocker_for_samsung/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/5aovzp/adhell_ads_...
- aaattt1 10y ago
  Knox appears to be a privacy nightmare on it's own