Not exactly what I was aiming for.
1Blocker works as local VPN. It reroutes all iPhone traffic through a local firewall/App, that drops suspicious DNS queries.

I've never tried Pihole but maybe I'll try to set it up. What happens when ads try to play when it's enabled? Are they just blank? Or if someone is watching a streaming service and an ad tries to come up what happens?

Also what happens if the device running Pihole goes down, as in if I have it running from an old device and it loses connection or restarts. Does everything just stop resolving names until it's back up? (I assume that's what happens like normal dns servers, but I'm trying to think of a device I have that won't be shut off, my media server has a lot going on with it at the moment, and is far from my router, I should move it)

Many add just don't show up. The reserved space stays white. Also, depending on the aggressiveness of your block list, some pages don't resolve (just like they never existed). E.g when you click on adds in a google search result, it leads to nowhere.

Short outtakes make no difference. It is your primary source for matching names to IPs. Depending on your configuration you can have alternative sources.

sounds like you are looking for rethink

GitHub - celzero/rethink-app: DNS over HTTPS / DNS over Tor / DNSCrypt client, WireGuard proxifier, firewall, and connection tracker for Android.

DNS over HTTPS / DNS over Tor / DNSCrypt client, WireGuard proxifier, firewall, and connection tracker for Android. - celzero/rethink-app

GitHub (github.com)

If the ad is under a filtered domain, it will simply not load.
If the ad is under the same domain as the site you are using (ex. Youtube) they will load just fine.

When the primary DNS is down, the secondary DNS will be used. This is the same regardless if PiHole is used or not, but is how DNS works.

Would it be overkill to use that with my graphenOS phone, where I don’t do much browsing etc.?

i dont think so, it mostly stays out of the way once its set up anyway

Laughs in f-droid

Using Duckduckgo App Tracking Protection. I'm not very knowledgeable about it but it shows me what it's blocking and it seems like at least a first step towards privacy without much compromises on Android.

Wifi and Bluetooth must be kept off unless in use.

If you are home on wifi, put your cell into air plane mode.

Don't run shady apps.

TC app shows you what trackers each app has. Rmeove shit you don't need, use browser

This is probably why even though phones have gotten faster, they still seem slow.

It’s also hilarious to me how little battery voyager uses compared to most modern apps.

Don't mind me, just adding it to idcaboutprivacy

Been running an AWS Lightsail instance for years, and before that on prem. Don't even notice it's running! But when I see other people's internet experience I'm left thinking, "What's all this crap?!"

Ex-wife was bitching about my "blueberry pie" or whatever fucking up FaceBook links. FINE. Turned it off. "The internet's slow!" Looked over her shoulder:

"See all that stuff loading? Ad, ad, ad, ad, ad, ad..."

"FINE! Turn it back on!"

Haven't logged into my instance for a year or more, no maintenance. Going to move it back to a Raspberry Pi or a VM when I get motivated. On Windows 11 now and M$ totally hosed Hyper-V for desktop operating systems and I don't want to spin another computer.

tl;dr: WELL worth spending an evening on the project. Hardest part is spinning up a Debian or Ubuntu server, VM or bare metal. The install is hilariously simple.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net/ | bash

You can use the private DNS function with an ad blocking DNS server like AdGuard.

Comically enough I didn't think about it long, I actually had it up and running on my jellyfin server by 11 this morning. Haven't played with it much yet just set my router DNS to it.

So now it's my jellyfin/Files/Caddy/DNS server. It's an old HP laptop my spouse has that I just hard wired and remote into using RustDesk. Works great even though the network cards arent great, and most of the storage is just an external USB drive.

I have a Continuous Glucose Monitor that communicates with my phon3, so I sadly need to always have Bluetooth on.

unless in use.

It communicates constantly with my phone so I always know my blood sugar. I can see a graph of the last 24 hours in 5-minute increments.

I get that and it should be on. If it can be off, that can reduce tracking

Yes wifi and Bluetooth are used to track your location. That's why Android requires you to grant location permissions to apps that want to access them.

In other words, if they have this information, it's because you explicitly gave them permission to collect it. Don't do that.