I love using Blokada for ad-blocking and privacy. However, I often use Blokada Plus (the WireGuard VPN) on highly restricted networks like school, work, and public Wi-Fi.
Many of these networks easily detect standard WireGuard traffic and block the VPN entirely. Could you please consider adding a “Stealth Mode” or Traffic Obfuscation feature? This would mask the VPN protocol as standard web traffic and make Blokada much more reliable on restrictive networks.
Thank you for your hard work and great open-source project!
Thank you for the feedback and for the kind words about Blokada
Traffic obfuscation is technically realistic, even in a WireGuard-based environment. However, those features are currently not a priority on our development roadmap. Right now, our core focus as a team remains centered on ad blocking, privacy protection, and overall service performance. I’m not saying that we will never try to introduce “stealth mode”, but at this point I won’t be able to give you even an approximate time frame.
I completely understand your current priorities, and I really appreciate how focused the team is on keeping Blokada stable and simple.
I wanted to share a perspective from a user experience angle that might be worth considering. For many users, reliability of the connection has effectively become part of what “privacy” means in practice. If a VPN cannot connect in the first place, then all the protections Blokada offers—DNS filtering, ad blocking, and privacy safeguards—don’t get a chance to work.
What we’re starting to see more often is that networks in schools, workplaces, hotels, and even public Wi‑Fi are quietly becoming more restrictive. Users don’t always report this as a “feature request”—they just experience it as “the app doesn’t work here anymore,” and then they move on without feedback.
From that perspective, an optional stealth or obfuscation mode could quietly solve a growing class of real-world failures. It wouldn’t change the core product, but it would help ensure that the existing value of Blokada is actually reachable in more environments. That tends to translate into fewer support frustrations, better retention, and a stronger sense of reliability from the user’s point of view.
I completely understand this may not be urgent right now, but I thought it might be useful to flag it early, before it becomes a more visible issue as network restrictions continue to evolve.
Thanks again for taking the time to consider feedback like this—it’s really appreciated.
On another note, I’d like to report another issue I’ve encountered.
I have a paid Blokada Plus subscription that allows me to use up to five devices on a single account.
I noticed that when I have two devices connected to the same account, both with the VPN active, turning off the VPN on one device unexpectedly affects the other device. Specifically, the ad-blocking feature stops working on the second device, even though its VPN remains enabled. The only way to restore ad blocking is to completely turn Blokada off and back on.
I’m not sure whether this also affects the VPN connection itself, but I know the ad blocker stops working because ads immediately start appearing.
Could you please investigate whether disabling the VPN on one device is unintentionally affecting the VPN or filtering service on the other devices linked to the same account? If this is unintended behavior, I’d really appreciate it if it could be fixed.
That would be a great addition. A stealth/obfuscation mode could improve reliability on restrictive networks while giving users more flexibility in how they connect. Hopefully the team considers it for a future update.
To help clarify how multi-device synchronization works in Blokada:
Ad-Blocking / Content Filtering State (Synchronized): This is expected behavior. The main ON/OFF toggle in the app controls the account-wide filtering state. If you disable ad blocking using the main switch on one device, that change is synchronized across all devices linked to the same account, meaning ad blocking will turn off on the second device as well.
VPN Connection State (Independent): The VPN connection itself is device-specific. Turning off the VPN on one device should not disconnect or affect the active VPN connection on your other devices.
I have double-checked this behavior on my Android test devices, and disabling the VPN on one phone does not disconnect the VPN on another active device under the same account.
However, if you are experiencing a situation where the VPN connection itself is actually being killed or disconnected on the second device (rather than just the ad-filtering toggle syncing), we would love to investigate this further with you.
Since we might need to check account specifics and logs, please send an email directly at hello@blokada.org with your Account ID and details about the devices you are using.
Just to clarify, the issue I’m experiencing is on two iPhones, both signed in to the same Blokada Plus account.
When I disable the VPN on one iPhone, the other iPhone remains connected to the VPN, but the ad-blocking/filtering stops working until I manually turn Blokada off and back on. Ads immediately start appearing, which is how I know the filtering is no longer active.
Since you were able to reproduce the expected behavior on Android, this may be an iOS-specific issue. I’ll send an email with my Account ID and device details so the team can investigate further.
