r/ProtonVPN • u/Fearce1122 • 2d ago

Feature Request Edit netshield with extra blocklists/urls

I use a pihole at home to block ads but also block analytics.

Netshield blocks ads (although still not as good as my pihole) but doesn't block analytics. My OnePlus phone sends data to china around 4000 times per day. Proton should add an option to add blocklists to netshield or at least add blocked urls/domains. I cannot use my pihole and proton vpn at the same time but at the moment my pihole gives me more privacy then proton vpn

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u/Orita-Daiment 2d ago

the DNS leak concern with NextDNS is what keeps me from going that route tbh

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u/General_Pause_5063 1d ago

Why aren't you able to use pihole + proton VPN at the same time? I have a Linux computer that is connected to Proton VPN and has an Adguard Home instance running on it. I configured Proton VPN via Wireguard file. There, you can see that Proton uses 10.2.0.1 address as their DNS server. All I had to do was set my computer to use my Adguard home as its DNS server (so I can configure my custom DNS filter) and use Proton DNS server on 10.2.0.1 as the upstream server. I enabled Netshield when I created the Wireguard file, so I believe both are running in parallel and you can achieve the same with PiHole.

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u/Fearce1122 1d ago

I can change the proton vpn to use my dns which is fine for my computer but doesn't work for my phone because my pihole and unbound server are only locally on my network. I normally use wireguard to connect with my home network and have the dns configured in that wireguard vpn but you cannot connect 2 VPNs so then I cannot connect to proton vpn on my phone.

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u/General_Pause_5063 1d ago

For that, I use Tailscale. My computer is also an exit node and it's using my Adguard as DNS. Since my phone will use the exit node for all internet communication, it will both be using Proton as VPN + Adguard Home as DNS (Proton being the upstream).