Stacking vpn and ad-blocking dns static ip addresses?

Cardinal;1067871895]I'm getting a dd-wrt router so that I can configure a vpn at the router level and anonymize all devices on my network at once. Just to follow along, here are the instructions I'll be following when the router arrives in the mail:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/dd-wrt-openvpn

Which is all relatively straight forward, except that I also want to adblock all devices on my network as well, which requires putting in Alternate DNS's static ip's.

[QUOTEThe only problem is it looks like I'm told to fill in three separate static ip addresses for the vpn, which doesn't appear to leave any fields left for Alternate DNS.[/QUOTE]

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Additional confusion: As it currently stands, I have Alternate DNS configured on my router right now, but I also have the PIA client running on my computer, which means that somehow, somewhere, PIA's own DNS address is running, doing its vpn thing, while Alternate DNS is simultaneously blocking ads to all my devices. If possible how do I push everything onto the router?

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Bonus question: Let's say what I want is even possible. While Alternate DNS is an extremely effective adblocker, it's absolutely vicious about disrespecting privacy. It makes no bones about the fact that the user is the product and their business is collecting your browsing history for selling to third parties. So the question is, if I'm using Alternate DNS's static ip and encrypting all of my traffic through PIA at the same time, can Alternate DNS see my browsing before it hits the vpn tunnel, or does the vpn tunnel sit between me and Alternate DNS, therefore disguising my browsing from everybody (but the vpn of course)?

can2man said:

Cardinal;1067871895]I'm getting a dd-wrt router so that I can configure a vpn at the router level and anonymize all devices on my network at once. Just to follow along, here are the instructions I'll be following when the router arrives in the mail:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/dd-wrt-openvpn

Which is all relatively straight forward, except that I also want to adblock all devices on my network as well, which requires putting in Alternate DNS's static ip's.

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[QUOTEThe only problem is it looks like I'm told to fill in three separate static ip addresses for the vpn, which doesn't appear to leave any fields left for Alternate DNS.

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Bonus question: Let's say what I want is even possible. While Alternate DNS is an extremely effective adblocker, it's absolutely vicious about disrespecting privacy. It makes no bones about the fact that the user is the product and their business is collecting your browsing history for selling to third parties. So the question is, if I'm using Alternate DNS's static ip and encrypting all of my traffic through PIA at the same time, can Alternate DNS see my browsing before it hits the vpn tunnel, or does the vpn tunnel sit between me and Alternate DNS, therefore disguising my browsing from everybody (but the vpn of course)?[/QUOTE]

Carjosse said:

I found it really simple actually once you know how basic Linux commands work and you get SSH configured which is not hard if you find the right instructions. It sounds a lot less complicated than what you are doing and you would not have to worry about privacy or anything.

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Easy for you. Like giving one directions to a place, it is so easy to get there. Just follow this road to where the old train station used to be, turn left..........................................

Cardinal said:

One set of instructions at lifehacker requires that I own a raspberry pi first, while this site, https://pi-hole.net/, either assumes I'm smart enough to know that I need to own a raspberry pi first, or it's asking me to run it on my computer. And then there's the danger of "piping to bash" I have no idea what that means, but it sounds either super awesome or super terrifying. Second point: the instructions at pi-hole.net is telling me to put its static ip in the router, which brings me back to the original problem, which is that PIA wants to hog all three static ip fields.



Yeah, just wait until daylight saving ends.

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Don't ya just love those assembly directions, translated from Chinese.

Cardinal said:

*Sigh*. I know.



I never see ads when I'm using Chrome on a laptop. I'm not super clear on the details, but there are anti-ad lists that things like u-block-origin, PIA's Mace, Alternate DNS and Adguard use. In the end, ads simply don't exist for me on Chrome. I think U-block-origin must have special ninja skills, because everywhere else I still see youtube ads. Not so on Chrome.

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I use FF and never see adds aside from those on YouTube.

JANFU said:

I use FF and never see adds aside from those on YouTube.

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This thread is a blast from the past.

I ended up abandoning this project because it was more hassle than it was worth. I was never able to get the router-vpn to get above a 9Mbs download speed, and even if I had, I wasn't able to program pass-throughs for different devices. The biggest example is Netflix which disallows proxies. The router doesn't allow you to input url addresses, but only static ip addresses. Netflix rotates through countless ip addresses, so making a network-wide vpn which allows Netflix was impossible (at least for my tech level).