NextDNS analytics
my mom would call the fire department if I tried to change the default wallpaper of her 2010 iphone
Sure it’s not that he no longer is able to use his phone? (Just kidding)
I wonder how much is just due to the default phone launcher and keyboard.
Wow! That’s much more that I would have thought. Can’t wait to liberate my dad’s phone over the holidays, he’s on board with me getting GrapheneOS on it. Will have to see what I can do to their home network as well though since mom’s stuck on a carrier-locked phone.
My windows work laptop claims most of the blocked requests in pihole in this Linux household
Part of that is probably all his apps got nuked?
My pihole reports similar after blocking millions of sites
The problem with that is it is going to retry again and again. I wish there was a way to make them think they connected so there would be less tries.
Depends on both what the adblocker responds and how a given program handles failures.
Pi-Hole and similar adblockers can pretend that the domain is on the device itself (A 127.0.0.1), is an invalid IP (A 0.0.0.0) or that the domain doesn’t exist at all (NXDOMAIN). Each one has its own implications, with the latter (usually the default afaik) being the most likely to have software generate a hard error and give up.
It’s basically just a ping that fails at that point. Not like it’s taking down the network.
He just used his phone less in general?
Just as likely that red sliver at the end was the traffic created by his intentional usage of the phone all-along. Telemetry and ads are just that gross, but what do I know?
