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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

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Post by sena »

joering2 wrote: post #26
aembleton wrote: post #23

If 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.

Actually, both their data center and their support team are located in Lithuania.

Time4VPS is essentially the international brand of the largest ISP in the country.

I was sceptical at first, but I have a VPS running there for a few months, serving 100k hits per day, with no technical problems from their side so far.

I just used their support once, but they responded in minutes.

Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month

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Post by boyter »

fny wrote: post #57
boyter wrote: post #29

I 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…

You must be blessed enough to have a fast upload speed. I'm still trapped at ~10Mbps. Thanks, Spectrum/TWC!

Not at all. I am still unlucky enough to be on ADSL2+ with 1Mbps upload.

Possibly will be looking at 40Mbit in the future but that depends on how lucky I get in Australia with the NBN, so not expecting much.

Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month

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Post by diego_moita »

Another solution: install DD-WRT or Tomato in your WiFi router and disable all ad servers on the DNS: http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Ad_blocking

Pay attention: this might interfere with some google functionality because it will block google ad-services. You'd have 2 workarounds: switch your searches to Duck-Duck-Go or keep google ad-services out of the disable DNS addresses.

Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month

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Post by Retr0spectrum »

Orangeair wrote: post #40

Just a heads-up, you can get 1 CPU and 0.6 gigs of RAM for free with the new entry tier of GCP: https://cloud.google.com/free/ (Disclaimer: Google employee, unrelated product area)

Am I the only one who finds the cloud console interface very unintuitive? How do I actually make use of the free tier, and set up something I can SSH into?

Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month

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Post by cromulent »

Orangeair wrote: post #45
Laforet wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notwithstanding the irony of one google service hurting another, the free tier only has 1GB of free egress traffic right?

Dang, you're right, I forgot about that. So not so suitable, unfortunately. Seems like root + a local hosts adblocker is still the best solution for Android, or a local VPN for iOS (do they have those on Android? never checked).

I don't have a full understanding of what's going on here, so this might be a stupid comment: Isn't 1GB of DNS lookups quite a lot?

Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month

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Post by rhizome »

MaikuMori wrote: post #32

How sad is that we need to jump trough hoops to just disable ads on our devices. And before ads advocate responds - ask for my money instead of polluting my mental space.

You won't pay enough to make up for not showing you ads.

Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month

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Post by mirsadm »

ZonedOut wrote: post #38
aembleton wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find Chrome to be faster than Firefox with uBlock on my Android device.

Get Brave browser, it's based on Chrome and looks the same but has adblocker and some other good features.

Is it open source? If not, I wouldn't trust it.

Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month

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Post by exadeci »

tiatia wrote: post #49
bberrry wrote: post #4

My 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.

How do you do this? I rooted my HTC one, put hosts in /etc/ but somehow the phoen "ignores" it?

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway

Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month

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Post by cptskippy »

My biggest gripe with network level filtering is making exceptions. I am currently running Pi.hole and making exceptions requires logging into the server via the web UI. SSL URLs also do not work and would require some sort of root cert.

With üblock you receive a UI notification of the block and the option to make an exception.

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