Big.
Absolutely agree
Feels like what happened with android tv.
Not the same. Threat of war between Israel and Hamas has been a constant state of affairs for decades.
Are you victim blaming? I believe there was a cease fire agreement at the time. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Adguard home works great and if you have a supported router it can run on that instead of needing a seperate device.
Also, it looks like they're financially supporting the person/people who compile one of the better blocklists out there (oisd.nl) and that's a plus in my book.
Be careful when setting up either of these as the default DNS service in your home network
So any DNS based blocker is going to have the same problem. I can report though that adguard home with the default blocklists and adding in the oisd big list hasn't broken anything. It isn't until I start adding keyword/regex based blocking that stuff starts breaking. And then it's mostly streaming apps that break. They have gotten smarter over the years about what to do when they can't find their ad/tracker servers.
As others have said you can easily (like actually easily, not like self hosting easily) redirect every known dns query on your network to a specified dns server.
I do this to redirect all dns queries to adguard home (which is the self hosted dns-based blocker, not the app-based one).
If you layer a vpn server on top of this and vpn from your phone or other mobile device to your home network, then your phone or mobile device will remain behind adguard home (or other custom dns) no matter where you are (as long as you've configured it correctly).
You can get complex to achieve this setup (with various docker instances on a home server or whatever) or go the (fairly) easy way with an Asus router running the asus-merlin firmware, a vpn host/server, and adguard home (they will all run on the router itself just fine while maintaining gigabit routing speeds). You can also put the skynet firewall extension for ip-based blocking. It will handle all of that while running a wireless AP with multiple guest networks across 2.4 and 5ghz bands if you get one of their better routers. Very stable too. If you are brave (not afraid of console/terminal) you can even set up vlan tagging and such, but I found that an isolated guest network on wifi was sufficient.
Adguard is a VPN
No its not.
Destiny 2 right? They've had BattlEye on there for quite a while now. Kinda sucks but there's no way around it.
Not sure if it's a factor for you but roku tries to phone home a lot more than anything else on my network (or perhaps my firewall just catches it more than other devices and apps). Otherwise roku is pretty good.
Nvidia shield tv is better though. It's the best set top box. Made even better by replacing the default launcher/ home screen (android TV default launcher now has 2/3 or more of the screen taken up by ads or "recommended content" which is just ads).