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Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
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Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#22Pi-hole is great, but there's no reason to dedicate an entire instance to it (assuming you have other uses for one) -- the resources used on my RPi 3 are negligible.
Using a public server instance would seem less likely a cost/resource savings than a convenience factor if you are adblocking on mobile platforms (linked article was mostly focused on adblocking for an Android phone, presumably one that will be used on-the-go and not just at home).
Setting up an at-home RPi solution is probably possible for most people but a lot more cumbersome dealing with inbound server tunneling (which may technically be forbidden by their ISP), dynamic IP services, etc.
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#23If you want something even cheaper, check out https://www.time4vps.eu/pricing/#!
If you purchase a 512MB RAM machine for two years it is €0.99/month!
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#24My number one reason for rooting my phone is blocking ads on a hosts-file level. It also stopped me from being able to play pokemon go, which I assume is for the best.
Why not just use Firefox with uBlock? Or do you use a lot of free apps with ads that don't offer a pay for no ads option?
I find Chrome to be faster than Firefox with uBlock on my Android device.
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#25Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#26If you want something even cheaper, check out https://www.time4vps.eu/pricing/# ! If you purchase a 512MB RAM machine for two years it is €0.99/month!
Horrible company with absurd ID requirements. I stopped trying to be validated user after confirming my email, confirming my text message and being close to send them my government issued IDs for God knows who and when to hack into them and steal it for identity fraud purposes.
Edit: oh and don't expect much customer support help for 99cents per month, even if their customer support is located in Cambodia.
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#27My number one reason for rooting my phone is blocking ads on a hosts-file level. It also stopped me from being able to play pokemon go, which I assume is for the best.
Why not just use Firefox with uBlock? Or do you use a lot of free apps with ads that don't offer a pay for no ads option?
A lot of my phone browsing involves apps with built-in browsers (reddit, HN) so hosts-filter is more practical. Killing ads in free apps is definitely part of the equation as well. The one downside would be not being able to click sponsored links on atop Google when looking for a particular product.
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#28My number one reason for rooting my phone is blocking ads on a hosts-file level. It also stopped me from being able to play pokemon go, which I assume is for the best.
great choice (I do the same on my jailbroken iDevices..
my usual go-to hosts resource is:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
block responsibly :)
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#29I did the same thing but using an old netbook I had lying around. It lives under the house running Pi-Hole and a few other things. I wrote about it here http://www.boyter.org/2015/12/pi-hole-ubuntu-14-04/
No idea what power draw it has (probably $5 a month?) but I have a large solar array so I doubt it costs me anything to actually run. I also get to recycle some old hardware.
EDIT - Seems that post was linked to by the pi-hole project itself at some point. Was wondering why it got so much traffic each month.
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#30It would be even better if there was a way to pay $2.50 that get distributed among the creators of the consumed content.