You mean like a pi-hole? I use one of those and I love it. Ain’t no way I set up one of those for him. Then that’s another thing I have to support when it inevitably has problems.
Adaway on fdroid works pretty well. It’s better if you have root access, but it functions fine as an adblocker without. I think it pretends to be a VPN service if you don’t have root
Haha, fair enough. I put it on my 80 yo mom’s motorola phone. She never asked where I got it. I believe that ad blocking is against the play store TOS, so you are unlikely to find a “mainstream” solution
I use nextDNS. You have to make an account, but the free tier has a ridiculous amount of ad blocks per month. Definitely enough for one or two machines.
You mean like a pi-hole? I use one of those and I love it. Ain’t no way I set up one of those for him. Then that’s another thing I have to support when it inevitably has problems.
Not a pi-hole. DNS name resolver can be set by system. You just need to use some sort of blocker that is maintained by someone else for the namespace
Any suggestions?
check out this list: https://publicdns.info/best-adblocking.html
using the adguard dns is probably easiest, fire and forget. nextdns gives you more settings and controls.
on android you can e.g. drop “dns.adguard-dns.com” in the “private dns” setting and you’re good, system-wide
Adaway on fdroid works pretty well. It’s better if you have root access, but it functions fine as an adblocker without. I think it pretends to be a VPN service if you don’t have root
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.adaway/
Ehhh… this is my dad’s Samsung tablet. F-droid is a nonstarter for a boomer.
Even Samsung tablets allow the change of the private DNS-Resolver. Android uses DoT. Start for example with adguard, or quad9:
unfiltered.adguard-dns.com dns.quad9.net
Haha, fair enough. I put it on my 80 yo mom’s motorola phone. She never asked where I got it. I believe that ad blocking is against the play store TOS, so you are unlikely to find a “mainstream” solution
I use nextDNS. You have to make an account, but the free tier has a ridiculous amount of ad blocks per month. Definitely enough for one or two machines.