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I’m reminded almost every day that I have a pi-hole since it is not my dns provider when on my company’s vpn. It’s absolutely night and day on so much of the we
by city41 6y ago
I’m reminded almost every day that I have a pi-hole since it is not my dns provider when on my company’s vpn. It’s absolutely night and day on so much of the web. Some sites have so many ads now it’s just shocking to be frank.
- pfundstein 6y agoWhy not use a client based content filter such as uBlock Origin?
- rovr138 6y agoNot them, but you can’t do that at every company.
- Waterluvian 6y agoAlso maybe they use their phone and many combinations of PhoneType + BrowserType don't support the same quality of adblocking as PiHole.
- 411111111111111 6y agoMobile Firefox Supports ublock Origin nowadays. I'd encourage anyone to try that out
- meitham 6y agoOn iOS too?
- robin_reala 6y agoNo, but there are plenty of other content filtering solutions on iOS, including Mozilla’s own Firefox Focus that can be installed as a system-level content filter.
- ornornor 6y agoNextDNS is pretty good especially on iOS where you can’t install adblockers (unlike on rooted android)
- Smoosh 6y agoYou can't? https://www.imore.com/how-block-ads-your-iphone-or-ipad https://www.imore.com/how-block-ads-your-iphone-or-ipad
- ornornor 6y ago> Where can I block ads? Only in Safari (or an app using the Safari View Controller). Pihole is a system wide Adblocker and so is NextDNS on iOS. So are the ones you can install on Android rooted.
- 112233 6y agolatest ios 13, AdGuard Pro installs VPN profile and filters on DNS level pretty well. Relevant adventure with iOS update rejection: https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-pro-is-back.html https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-pro-is-back.html
- city41 6y agoI could (and heck, probably should). But I don't browse websites all that often on the vpn. Just on the occasion that I do, I'm blown away at all the ads :) So just lazy.
- streb-lo 6y agoObviously will depend on your company, but some corporate VPN clients will still let you use a local or alternate DNS. Then just add the machines you need to connect to on your work network to your hosts file.
- mikeryan 6y agoWon't fix your issue but I run a Wireguard VPN on my PiHole that allows me to get onto my local network. The other upside is that once connected you get the PiHole blocking from anywhere....