DNS adblocking not enough anymore? (hexbear.net)

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I've been using adguard home for ages to block ads at the router level. I also have an instance running on OCI free tier so I can do DNS based adblocking when away from home.

My partner has been complaining about seeing ads on the Goodreads app for a while. Recently I've been seeing tons of ads on news sites as well. I know we are properly using adguard, tracker domains are blocking and I can see our devices in the query logs.

After some googling I'm seeing people say DNS ad blocking isn't very useful anymore. So what is the next best option for android devices? Local VPN based blocking? What app do you use?

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[-] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Have you tried using more aggressive blocklists? Unfortunately if the app serves ads through the same host which serves normal content, then it basically defeats DNS ad blocking, which can only block ads when ads are served by a separate host.

On Android I'm using the Adguard Firefox extension, and it seems to work pretty well. There might be some more advanced way to block ads in using ReVanced^[https://patch-explorer.web.app/], but I don't know anything about that.

Edit: https://github.com/hoo-dles/morphe-patches claims it can remove Goodreads ads.

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