People who use Adguard home or pie hole along with a vpn at router level, do you use any firewall apps on your phone aswell?
People who use Adguard home or pie hole along with a vpn at router level, do you use any firewall apps on your phone aswell?
This is aimed at iOS users more, but do any of you use any firewall apps like 1 blocker fire wall or adguard dns.
The reason I’m asking is if you have all them things at router level what good does it do on a device level?
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On iOS, I’ve tried quite a few combinations and I’ve gotten feedback from users with others.
When I ran pi-hole or AdGuard home, I also used AdGuard on all my iOS devices - both the DNS pseudo-VPN and safari extensions cause otherwise ads would sneak in. The Adguard app removes the annoying ads from Apple News and NYT apps.
Now I just use NextDNS and the same AdGuard iOS app setup.
Interesting, do you or would you recommend a vpn at router level though?
Because forgive me if I’m wrong but if you use a vpn at router level then use adguard dns on the device which creates a vpn profile, wouldn’t that leak your data?
Or would you recommend no vpn on router and just use adguard home, with nextdns as the resolver or upstream?
I don’t run VPNs at the router level. The speed and latency hit, plus the spambot triggers aren’t worth it for me. This is purely a non-privacy minded preference, mind you, and I’m totally not an expert.
You bring up a good point though. Regardless of what’s running upstream, if my device is running private relay, it all gets bypassed. So I have to disable private relay.
My preference is to run nextdns over DoH, AdGuard locally on iOS + Stop the Madness, and a VPN when I’m feeling sheepish.
That makes sense, is it possible to use advised dns along with a vpn on iOS? I’m sure I read it somewhere but I don’t remember.
It does suck however that if you use private relay it doesn’t work very well.