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)
Not for personal use in Europe.
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
#82Earlier 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).
> or a local VPN for iOS (do they have those on Android? never checked).
It seems so; at least my Android phone has something named "VPN", which I sometimes use to capture traffic and look at what my phone is sending/receiving.
(Packet-capturing your phone traffic is a pretty eye-opening experience; I was surprised just how much data about you goes to ad/tracking services.)
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#83Just 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)
But not in the EU, there you cannot sign up as a individual only as a business :(
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
IMO Hacker News works better without an app.
Most reddit apps let you open links in an external browser
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Geez, color me double-wrong. Yes, that should be plenty. I thought was a VPN-esque solution that required shuffling all traffic through the VPS instance, but yes you're right, it's basically just a custom DNS server. In which case this would be totally fine. I might even try it myself if I ever decide to unroot my phone.
DNS66 ( https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 ) doesn't require root. It uses the Android VPN system to capture DNS requests and forwards everything else.
Agreed. Works really well on all my Android devices and the performance impact is negligible
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
just yesterday was checking many browsers, Firefox on Android is slow, was comparing loading times and it was very slow compared to Brave it RSBrowser or even Chrome plus no pull down to refresh is killer and there doesn't even seem to be plugin to add this only button or more fingers gesture or not just swipe down on bright side on desktop i switched from chrome to Firefox and it seem ok, though it seem not so many…
Firefox has a bug where first the tab takes ages to load. Open the same page in another app and see it fly
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#87My 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.
If you have a Samsung Galaxy with Knox (S6+ I think), you can use Adhell which works without rooting and has all the capabilities of root adblock.
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#88This is really neat and I had thought about doing this when I acquired a new Android device that I don't have root on. Alternatively, a program was made to host a DNS process on the phone in userland that downloads blacklists as well as uses external well known nameservers. Then use build in VPN client to redirect all DNS queries through to the daemon. DNS66 has been doing a fine job since I started using it last wee…
If that's a Samsung with Knox, you can use Adhell without rooting (recommending as a happy user): https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/5aovzp/adhell_ads_...
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#89... or simply subscribe to Ad Free Time for $1.99 /pm https://adfreetime.com/
yes, very good!
Just curious, if I use their DNS, how to they know it's me? from the hardware address of my network card?
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#90My 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.
If you have a Samsung Galaxy with Knox (S6+ I think), you can use Adhell which works without rooting and has all the capabilities of root adblock.
Wow! Thanks for this. Adhell is awesome.