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Yes this has been my trouble as well, to the point that sometimes I switch off the VPN with piHole and just rely on a commercial VPN that rolls IPs + adblocker software for those occasions. Imperfect, and expensive comparatively

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I'm surprised that commercial vpns don't offer an ad blocking option; from their perspective, it's not only a great feature to market, but it reduces their bandwidth costs.

To be perfectly fair, a good chunk of VPN providers primarily see P2P/bulk downloading and streaming traffic.

Ordinary web browsing probably isn't a significant part of VPN traffic when you think about it.

Agree it would reduce bandwidth costs, but there's also a cost to maintaining such infrastructure.

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