Pihole makes iOS games ad free... for free

Brief backstory: My kids play the game paper.io 2 and asked me to download it myself to compare scores.

Turns out it’s kind of fun so I’ve been playing it off and on at home. It had never occurred to me that while there is a $2-3 upgrade fee for the “no ads” version... I’d never actually seen an ad while playing.

Until today... when I was playing the game while away from home and the game was chock full of ads and there was a forced delay between lost lives during which they force you to watch ads.

Then it struck me... I turned on my vpn from my phone back to my home pihole server, force killed the game to restart it on iPhone, and voila... no more ads !

Thank you pihole. 👍🏼👍🏼

Does this work for other games as well? Unexpected and appreciated benefit for me!

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