[mattrighetti]

Do yourself a favour and install AdGuardHome/PiHole in your LAN so that you don't have to connect to a VPN each time, that way DNS is going to work and return a valid response back to every single device that you own in the network.

[zinekeller]

No dice if you're a Vodafone customer, they run DPI so that they block specific IPs (or even specific domains if the IP is shared).

[chongli]

This is why we need everyone to use ECH (encrypted client hello) [1] [2] and large CDNs to share IPs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Encrypt...

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/handshake-encryption-endgame-an-...

[linker3000]

I have two Plusnet Hub Ones at home being used as wireless access points. Both are flashed with OpenWrt and one has AdBlock installed; that one is the house's primary DNS server, with OpenDNS upstream.

Coupled with uBlock origin on all laptops and PCs, the online world is very ad-free.

If I bypass the blocking I am dismayed by how much ad crap there is out there.

[OJFord]

Not that I don't recommend something like that for other benefits, but GP could probably just switch their router or devices to use some non-ISP DNS - 1.1.1.1, 9.9.9.9, 8.8.8.8, whatever. It's not blocking specific DNS requests that will fix their immediate problem, it's not blocking them (by not using ISP's resolver).

[ikekkdcjkfke]

Isn't there a docker image one can spin up cheaply and not connect to dubious vpn provisers?

[vorpalhex]

PiHole is local. You can docker it but you have some.. issues depending on configuration. AdGuard is a pihole like SaaS (that seems pretty good, it's the sort of thing I'd get for my mom).

[lostlogin]

Would this work? I assumed that ISP blocking would still block even when I use a Pihole.

[mattrighetti]

In most of my cases, they're just blocking the DNS.