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DNS-based Host Blocker (and lightweight ad blocker) for Android

19 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 2 stories, 17 comments · first 2016-12-19 · latest 2022-11-04

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  1. …list of well known (mostly German) non-logging servers courtesy of the Chaos Computer Club. https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66#user-content-how-it-wo...
    comment by rcMgD2BwE72F · 2022-11-04 · in Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy
  2. …It sets up a vpn connection and allows you to edit the host files that get listed on the device. https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66/releases
    comment by chunkles · 2021-03-11 · in Ask HN: Do you read articles on HN before reading/writing comments?
  3. …DNS over HTTPS/3 (QUIC), and has way more features than any other DNS client I've come across. [0] https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66/issues/11 [1] https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66/blob/4f1304746e2/app/s... [2]…
    comment by ignoramous · 2021-02-16 · in RethinkDNS – monitor app activity, block ads and firewall apps on Android
  4. …DNS traffic through this process, which mitigates it quite a bit. This issue has some tech details: https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66/issues/193
    comment by fulafel · 2019-02-20 · in Block Ads in Apps on Android
  5. …but for some reason it misses a few ads unlike Blokada which never missed a single ad for me. [1] https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
    comment by vidyesh · 2019-01-23 · in Blocking website ads with a hosts file
  6. …from Fdroid [1]. It isn't available from the Play Store, since Google has banned ad blockers. [0] https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
    comment by arctux · 2018-08-02 · in AdGuard Pro for iOS will be discontinued due to Apple's policy
  7. …on Android, here's a great one that's open source. Get it on F-Droid, XDA, or build from source: https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
    comment by _bxg1 · 2018-05-31 · in Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store
  8. use an open source one: https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
    comment by gruez · 2018-05-09 · in Apple cracking down on applications that send location data to third-parties
  9. DNS66 and NetGuard are similar open source applications. https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
    comment by opencl · 2018-04-25 · in Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy
  10. DNS66 https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/ https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 Successfully being used on a 1st-gen Moto Z Play, no root, stock firmware. Works great.
    comment by philg_jr · 2018-03-21 · in Introducing the LineageOS SDK
  11. DNS66 works the same way and is slightly more popular: https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
    comment by aiCeivi9 · 2018-02-27 · in Ad network uses advanced malware technique to conceal CPU-draining mining ads
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    DNS66: OSS ad blocker for Android that works for all apps (no root needed)
    story by JelteF · 2018-01-27 · 6 comments
  13. …it since a year or so and quite happy with it. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/ https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
    comment by bartkmq · 2017-12-20 · in Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
  14. Such applications are not necessarily a problem - take a look at this Android one, for example: https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 In any case it should be up to the owner of the device if they wish to do this sort of thing rather than…
    comment by gvurrdon · 2017-10-10 · in Privacy
  15. A non-root way: DNS66 via F-Droid. https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
    comment by e40 · 2017-03-14 · in Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
  16. …available if installed from the Play store) I re-linked NetGuard as the most user-friendly, but https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 was also mentioned.
    comment by j_s · 2017-03-13 · in Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
  17. DNS66 ( https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 ) doesn't require root. It uses the Android VPN system to capture DNS requests and forwards everything else.
    comment by filmor · 2017-03-13 · in Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
  18. …queries through to the daemon. DNS66 has been doing a fine job since I started using it last week. https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
    comment by dvno42 · 2017-03-12 · in Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
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    DNS66 – DNS-Based Ad/Host Blocker for Android
    story by mhaehnel · 2016-12-19 · 0 comments