[soylentcola]

I've also had success using dns.adguard.net as the private DNS on my phone. Doesn't cost anything but I believe the paid version of this and similar services allow for customization and statistics.

In applications/browsers without an adblocker, ads just show up as broken or don't bother loading. In Firefox/Mull/etc with uBlock Origin, it's redundant as those block and hide.

I used to use AdAway (maintains a system-wide blacklist added to your hosts file) but when I got my current phone I didn't bother unlocking superuser access and I believe the non-root version uses a VPN type solution. The custom DNS works almost as well.

Downside is that Adguard has a record of your DNS lookups, but normally your ISP or whoever has that so I consider it a wash. YMMV.

[BuckRogers]

I use 1.1.1.1 for DNS on my iPhone just because of Cloudflare's speed in my desktop tests, DNS over HTTPS, and reliability. I do love AdGuard, and use the app on my iPhone. I've compared AdGuard MV3 vs uBlock Origin Lite MV3 in Edge, and since the beginning of it all till today, AdGuard is doing the better job.

The UBo team seems to want to find a way to punish users for MV3, removing features that AG MV3 has managed to implement, like adding custom filters. I don't need much of that, but I do need the ability.

The idea is to push uBlock fans (like myself) over to Firefox to use their full implementation. Not only is MV2's time limited in FF, but I used FF for 20 years straight. I'm not going back because there's enough web glitches with it that I don't want to anymore.

AdGuard seems to be doing a great job on mobile and desktop. Your comment just further backed up what I've been finding lately.