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The instructions to use adguard DNS on their website doesn't contain how to use adguard DNS over TLS with Android.

For anyone running on Android 9 (edit) or later, navigate to

Settings -> WiFi and Internet -> Private DNS

Select Private DNS provider hostname

Add dns.adguard.org (DNS over TLS)

Click save.

Visit https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/ and you should see browser's 'Server not found' instead of Google's (disable existing ad-blockers or they might jump in and block the URL anyway)

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For anyone on Android 4.0 or later, consider using Google's Intra [0] to use adguard DNS over HTTPS, if you prefer it over cloudflare's or google's.

Install Intra.

Open the app, click on Settings.

Choose customer URL and paste: https://dns.adguard.com/dns-query

Be sure to 'lock the app' to prevent it from being killed in the background.

[0] https://getintra.org

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Just wanted to say thanks!

I already use Ad Blocking on my personal phone (LineageOS + AdAway) but my wife's phone is still stock Android and without an Ad Blocker. Intra + AdGuard just fixed that. Goodbye pervasive tracking

Cloudflare should really make an address like dns.cloudflare.com, too. 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com is cute as an "inside joke" of sorts, but to most people who don't know about IPs and such it would be easier to use the former.

This was introduced in Pie (Android 9), so it's most likely not working with Oreo (Android 8).

Thanks, changed it now. Added instructions for Android 4.0 and above, too.

Also, "dns.adguard.com", not "dns.adguard.org".

If your goal is to get rid of ads, why would you use _anything_ made by an ad company?

OP was actually somewhat inaccurate when he said "Google's". Intra is actually by Jigsaw, a separate Alphabet subsidiary. The difference is significant as Alphabet companies, though closely tied to Google (e.g. Jigsaw's website is a Google subdomain), are run independently.

Perhaps more important is that the project is also open source: https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/intra

Run "independently" but financed by ad revenue, since that's where 90% of Google revenue comes from. "You can't make a person understand something if his salary depends on not understanding it".

Because some don't mind the text-based ads, but do mind the 10mb+ animated flashing overlay ads with audio that make the internet unusable.

The principal concern is pervasive tracking, not ads.

Doubleclick (owned by Google) serves those too. And there's another component to this: tracking.

Why not just stop using those websites. That's my policy.

Just use blockada app

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