Pi-hole gets around this problem by doing all the ad-and tracker-blocking at your router, so all the internet traffic coming into your house is filtered for advertising and tracking.
I’ve been looking in to this a bit more. I was interested in what you said about PIA so I had a look at my current VPN’s options (airvpn). Turns out they also have ad blocking options that I do remember configuring one time but then completely forgot about them.
I think I’m still going to try the pi-hole option though as my problem is with my Apple TV. I can’t install a vpn app on that. Looking at the link that op posted it’s possible to use the pi-hole on a per device basis by changing the DNS setting on the device rather than on the router, so I’ll continue using my VPN on my computer and mobile devices and just route the Apple TV through a pi-hole
Yup, you got it. If you want to give it a test run, you can also use adguards free public DNS. It’s like a public pihole, but I’m sure they’re collecting data.
I’ve been looking in to this a bit more. I was interested in what you said about PIA so I had a look at my current VPN’s options (airvpn). Turns out they also have ad blocking options that I do remember configuring one time but then completely forgot about them.
I think I’m still going to try the pi-hole option though as my problem is with my Apple TV. I can’t install a vpn app on that. Looking at the link that op posted it’s possible to use the pi-hole on a per device basis by changing the DNS setting on the device rather than on the router, so I’ll continue using my VPN on my computer and mobile devices and just route the Apple TV through a pi-hole
Yup, you got it. If you want to give it a test run, you can also use adguards free public DNS. It’s like a public pihole, but I’m sure they’re collecting data.
https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
Oh that’s cool, I’m gonna give that a go right now.