I've had to give up on both which is a pain for me. Reason being that for some reason no connections work when it's running. As soon as I disable it internet works again. Haven't bothered figuring out what the issue is yet.
Yeah, totally. Set myself a Pi-hole + PiVPN up on a small Vultr instance. Routing all Smartphone traffic through it. Costs me 3.50 € a month and blocks half of all DNS requests. Haven't seen a single external ad since then.
I already use Firefox + ublock origin and it is enough for my browsing.
However I am looking for something to block ads also on apps.