Most ad blockers work per-app or per-browser. That means ads still slip through in other apps, games, and system-level telemetry. A better approach is to block ads and trackers at the DNS level — before the connection is even established.

This post explains how to set up AdGuard Home as a DNS server on a VPS, accessible only through a WireGuard VPN tunnel. The result: every device connected to your VPN gets network-wide ad blocking with zero client-side configuration beyond changing the DNS server.