But for my phone, I set up a PiHole running on an EC2 instance and VPN into it from my phone. Blocks ads in everything, not just my web browser. The VPN is configured to only tunnel DNS lookups, not traffic, so the EC2 bandwidth bill is minimal.
But for my phone, I set up a PiHole running on an EC2 instance and VPN into it from my phone. Blocks ads in everything, not just my web browser. The VPN is configured to only tunnel DNS lookups, not traffic, so the EC2 bandwidth bill is minimal.
That said, the massive performance gains of blocking ads and intrusive 3PC probably more than makes up for it, but something to consider.
But for the most part, I imagine it won't make much of a difference. I live within 300 miles of the data center containing my EC2 instance.
I have no idea if the Pi-hole is configured with this extension.
But I have an instance that I already use for other things (IRC bouncer, Mumble server, Taiga task/issue tracker, and test server for a game I was writing) that has plenty of CPU time to spare, so it's not costing me anything.