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Can you run all your traffic through a self-hosted pihole to avoid such things?

You're already too rich and too tech aware to qualify as the low end described in the article if you ask that question :)

Maybe so but I also test things in a variety of browsers and devices frequently to try and avoid the problems described in the article.

That's great.

But you just assumed that someone who uses these low end devices has heard of a raspberry pi, can afford one and even has wired internet to plug it into.

I was responding to someone with a recent example of a slower Android phone. I know many Linux and Android users who already have Raspberry Pi’s and similar devices they could use to set up a pihole. People who go down the “fully free” Linux path or even are using more experimental hardware have the same issues.

Pihole can (I assume) also work on WiFi too.

Certainly an option for me. But not a scalable solution for the large number of non-tech people with older devices.

I’d love something like it for all my older devices where I can set it and forget it.

NextDNS is pretty good for this - just change the DNS in your network settings.

You'll also need to add bundles to block dns names ( free fyi)

Wasn’t there an old browser that would render the page on the server and just send down the result or something like that?

The old Opera for mobile did that. I think Chrome had something similar at one point.

Opera!

Having a decent internet experience shouldn't require going through your own self-hosted server.

Absolutely not but then I never thought I’d need a 20,000 entry hosts file either.

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