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People who use Adguard home or pie hole along with a vpn at router level, do you use any firewall apps on your phone aswell? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Ste41th@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is aimed at iOS users more, but do any of you use any firewall apps like 1 blocker fire wall or adguard dns.

The reason I’m asking is if you have all them things at router level what good does it do on a device level?

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I use ControlD on my router and mobile devices

[–] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you don’t mind me asking do you use any vpn on your router?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not at the moment. No. I used to have one of those Netgate firewalls using pfsense i could do vpn on but i really didnt see the point. By using ControlD as my DNS i block known malware, ads, and trackers for free. Obviously that does not protect from everything, but it goes a long way towards helping.

[–] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Very true, I’ve also noted that controlD can actually spoof your ip, so I suppose there is no need for vpn