[martin_a]

I did this for a while in combination with a PiHole setup on a small vultr.com package.

Utility in that was that the traffic of all devices was routed through a "PiHoled VPN", so very little advertisements came through...

[giobox]

A cheap VPS instance + DNS with adblock + self hosted VPN used to be great until around ~5 years ago, when a great many websites (especially streaming sites) just started blocking any IP range associated with a VPS provider. I've given up using VPSes as VPN exit nodes now.