Microsoft hate is justified.

For any streaming, Netflix, YouTube, or anything I would always use a computer. Not some awful app on a slow device. No screen of mine needs to be anything besides a screen.

I wouldn’t say this is “better”

I do run a pihole, but I still will never connect my roku to the internet. It is much better to have a media PC or other streaming device I have control of fully connected.

I’d ditch Mull, and go IronFox. It’s a fork of Mull that is actively maintained.

Thank you for the info, I may try that out of curiosity

So, I of course rebooted everything i could, the box hosting my DNS/PiHole, VPN, docker box, etc. However, was remote and couldn’t reboot my modem.

I lowered my MTU on my VPN client config after rebooting my modem, and it’s working.

I don’t fully understand why it worked, but it did.

Maybe something on my ISPs end that wasn’t functioning.

I turned on query logging for my PiHole. I chose a random site I don’t typically browse, and confirmed I saw it logged in my PiHole. Though, I am thinking it’s likely DNS that’s causing issues.

I even tried turning off split tunneling, and it does the same thing.

I checked automatic DNS setting on my phone.

I don’t know if it will make a difference but the DNS records for my local services are CNAME records, so I am going to change it to an A/AAAA record on PiHole.

I have these set in PiHole and not my Unbound.

DNS leak test comes back the same mobile data with VPN as it does WiFi with VPN pointing back to DNS reflecting my upstream DNS, Quad9.

Wish I knew how to test/troubleshoot this.

That’s what I was thinking. Thank you

Absolutely, I can connect to the services via IP:Port

I have DNS handled by my PiHole (using unbound as-can upstream DNS)

On my PiHole, I have an A record for the docker box, and then CNAME records pointing to the A name record.

It makes little sense why it works on an offsite WiFi, but not mobile data.

Technology is going to be a part of every kids future (if they have one…) and should be taught with the other things they need to learn to be functional and successful.

There are other ways to limit social media access, and wccessnto other unproductive media. Use school sanctioned devices for work. Hire proper IT folk to lock down the equipment. But that would require funding for schools to be adequate.

This is a complex issue. You are over simplifying it.

I wasn’t trying to be short or condescending either. Just relaying what I know.

It is another layer of privacy in some cases. Could protect against poisoning of I’m not mistaken, but don’t quote me.

I know for me, I prefer to self host things where I can so I can own as much of my own data as possible.

Do you know what DNS does?

If you don’t, essentially is what translates IP addresses to hostnames.

So what having unbound would do is allow you to do DNS lookup locally.

I have used Tempo but I self host Navidrome

You can use both. Unbound is a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver.

You can setup Unbound to be a self hosted DNS solution, and point PiHole to use your Unbound.

Source: Unbound

Not from America. America is full of hatred towards minorities.

I had it for a few months. Luckily it was easy to swap out this early on.

Time to find a new option.

Cancelled my subscription today. I will be finding an alternative.