I would very much prefer an ansible playbook so I can deploy this in a blink, than all those countless manual procedures.
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
#112... 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?
"You need to log in to your Self Service area whenever your IP address changes (i.e. if you only configured your computer and you travel) so that your current IP is validated to your account. If you don’t do this, ads will start to reappear and region unlock will stop working!" -seems like it just registers the IP address when logging into their portal/page.
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#113Out of interest, would somebody be able to reconstruct those blurred-out IP addresses and password by using deconvolution? [1] http://www.deconvolve.net/bialith/Research/BARclockblur.htm
I can't help but mention that one of the methods is called a Weiner Filter.
Heh.
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#114Earlier 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 use Firefox on Android with an adblocker installed via its extensions page without root and it makes me a happy browser. It obviously doesn't do anything for other apps, though.
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#115Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#116Just 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)
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#117This 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…
I use Netguard ( https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard ) and found it to be better polished than DNS66, check it out if you're interested, I'm a happy user.
I also use this and prefer it to DNS66 because I can use a hosts file rather than just changing the DNS server. Both work well though. Oh, and both are open source!
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#118Just 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)
Unfortunate that a credit card has to be provided for a "free" trial
Re: Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
#119Another 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.
There's also LEDE, a fork of OpenWRT.