Sounds like that’s the way I’ll have to go. Unfortunate, I hate increased layers of complexity, but I think that’s the move.

Ooo a pihole! That’s on the list.

That might be what I’ll have to do.

That sounds ideal, but I don’t currently have the resources to set up a home network. :⁠-⁠\

Right, it’s like the commentor above asking why I would use a private dns. Check the logs. I posted a screenshot above. A private dns is a great tool.

A mvno is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, thus MVNO. They don’t own the network, they lease it.

I use a private dns for privacy. I don’t like my data and metrics being shared without my consent. It also blocks ads. Win win

edit: they had some sort of billing issue with me where my bill was consistently 40-50+ bucks over what it should be. So it would be correct one month then the next it would be like 200 bucks and back and forth. When I called, the garbage support had zero clue, and now that I have cancelled, they say they owe me 40 bucks. When I went to pay my bill, it was always 2 payments. Why? I called, again no clue. They did away with Google pass, well you want to know what they also did away with? The insurance on my phone and didn’t tell me. So with i needed it, I was not insured. Cool. Hard pass for me.

Edit: here’s an example of why a private dns is useful:

I think they provide tools to do this. You can do google takeout, then set your privacy settings to delete after X amount of time. We can hold good faith that they do so? Other than that, i guess you can contact them?

God I’m a nerd, I read the first few words of the third one and my mind immediately jumped to debug symbols and was instantly confused. Lol then i told my adhd to take a back seat and read the rest.

Most, if not all podcasts are just an rss feed to a url. The application consumes that xml and delivers it to you as icons for you to listen to.

AntennaPod (Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player) https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

edit: just now trying the app. Really awesome, better than the thing I’m currently using. Thanks for the suggestion!