Change your dns to dns.adguard.com, it helps with the ads of miui, even with recommendations and msa off, I never saw ads since I changed it, on poco f3.

Block ads, trackers and malicious websites on all your devices.

Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. Get a constantly updating feed of breaking news, fun stories, pics, memes, and videos just for you.

DNS is used to resolve domains (eg reddit.com, google.com) to IP addresses that your phone can connect to, so you're correct, this may be a legitimate worry.

Google Search, also referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web

DNS is used to resolve domains (eg reddit.com, google.com) to IP addresses that your phone can connect to, so you're correct, this may be a legitimate worry.

The best ad blocker for Android. Free and open source.

You can consider using something like AdAway (https://adaway.org/) in VPN mode instead for similar functionality; this filtering is done on your device and a VPN is used to intercept DNS queries. Blokada (https://blokada.org/) also works similarily, and has worked for me in the past. Some people seem to discourage it, I'm not sure why. I'd just go with AdAway.

An ad blocker that uses the hosts file. For Android, requires root.

You can consider using something like AdAway (https://adaway.org/) in VPN mode instead for similar functionality; this filtering is done on your device and a VPN is used to intercept DNS queries. Blokada (https://blokada.org/) also works similarily, and has worked for me in the past. Some people seem to discourage it, I'm not sure why. I'd just go with AdAway.