Yeah, on my un-rootable work phone I have a wireguard connection just for DNS to my pihole, but I’d prefer the phone just not make those connections in the first place. There’s a noticeable battery life improvement with hosts file based blocking since it doesn’t have to make a network connection at all.
System-level ad-blocking is not on that list, so looks like I still need to root 🤷🏻♂️
Private DNS really helps with that. Although it does rely on an external entity for your blocking
Yeah, on my un-rootable work phone I have a wireguard connection just for DNS to my pihole, but I’d prefer the phone just not make those connections in the first place. There’s a noticeable battery life improvement with hosts file based blocking since it doesn’t have to make a network connection at all.
Using a DNS ad blocker has been as effective for me as root based AdAway