Ah, gotcha, yeah I use my pihole rather manually to block things I don’t recognize. It’s kinda fun to see what breaks (usually fucking nothing, surprise surprise).

So like I get an ad on a page, nope, go into pihole and block literally anything from that device in tht time range which I don’t recognize as the url I wanted or some necessary component, reload and see what happens.

I’ve broken a few games and pages doing that, but it’s easy enough to walk back, just reload the thing and you get a new query to unblock.

But it’s nice for preventing my tv from reporting on my behavior (I like the apps, not the shady data collection or ads), shady sites as you say, and with a basic vpn, golden on mobile too.

It’s a shame it doesn’t handle cookies tho. I’m on ghostery dawn browser which takes that stuff as a top priority (dawn hasn’t been updated in a year so I’m using it cautiously for link handling only, with ghost tabs as the default so my activity and trackers clear when I close the browser) but I’d prefer a single solution for everything network wide…