I wonder if the backlash against advertising and social and the web more generally will lead to more people buying these sorts of devices to try and own their own networks and information again. Surely the cloud providers and the platforms will suffer in this shift.
The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
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Re: The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
#32Is it me, or is pi hole way more popular than it should be? Compared to the alternatives, it's worse in almost every way. It only works on your local network, so good luck blocking ads while you're at work, using mobile data, or at a cafe. Browser based adblockers (which is available on most desktop browsers, mobile safari, and firefox for android) can block elements and url patterns, pi hole can't. Even if you're on…
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#33I've been running a Pi-Hole instance for about a year now, it's excellent. I could never get it to work with my router, but manually configuring the DNS on my devices to point to it works just as well. One thing that became immediately apparent was how much faster browsing the web got after I turned it on.
Been running it myself for 5-6 months, and other than the occasional (actually, very rare) complaint from the Mrs. that a link she clicked won't go through due to a blocked tracker/analytics intermediary, it's been a peachy time VPNing into our home network so it works just as well on the go. Our install Pi-Hole points its upstream DNS to 1.1.1.1, with uBlock Origin where possible installed on our devices. Can't imag…
What advantage is there in using 1.1.1.1 instead of your own DNS resolver?
Re: The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
#34Is it me, or is pi hole way more popular than it should be? Compared to the alternatives, it's worse in almost every way. It only works on your local network, so good luck blocking ads while you're at work, using mobile data, or at a cafe. Browser based adblockers (which is available on most desktop browsers, mobile safari, and firefox for android) can block elements and url patterns, pi hole can't. Even if you're on…
I thought you had to root your Android to block ads? In my household we have four people with smartphones and another four laptops. That's a lot of ads to block. Blocking ads on my laptop made a more noticeable improvement to web browsing than increasing my network bandwidth.
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#35I run grimd (alternative) in the cloud. Then I can point my router and dns app at it when I'm out and about.
The setup needs upgrading for DNS over https and maybe run it in Kubernetes?
Re: The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
#36> people who had an objection to capitalism in principle, Yes, citizens, watch your daily dose of ads or else the economy crumbles! For the good of capitalism, watch ads, citizens, watch ads!
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Gotta earn those 15 million credits!
Re: The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
#37Is it me, or is pi hole way more popular than it should be? Compared to the alternatives, it's worse in almost every way. It only works on your local network, so good luck blocking ads while you're at work, using mobile data, or at a cafe. Browser based adblockers (which is available on most desktop browsers, mobile safari, and firefox for android) can block elements and url patterns, pi hole can't. Even if you're on…
> ... using mobile data, or at a cafe.
I run a VPN on my Edgerouter X and use that while out and about to keep things ad free and reasonably safe.
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#38Does anyone know if there are performance penalties associated with using a Raspberry PI as your DNS server? Also, a link[1] to the Pi-Hole page. [1] https://pi-hole.net/
Slightly off-topic, but from the pi-hole page:
> Install by running one command:
> curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
installing arbitrary software off the internet by piping curl output to bash is a terrible idea. At the very least, I would have expected them to sign this script... considering this software has unlimited access to your internal network, and the ability to influence ALL network traffic into/out of your internal network.
Re: The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
#39> Only a few years ago, even people who hated ads saw ad-blocking software as akin to stealing.
I've been using ad blockers and NoScript plugins for longer than I can remember. Before that I was using /etc/hosts file based blocking. I've never felt like I was stealing nor do I know anyone that feels that way.
On the contrary, I've always felt that content to display, and in particular code to execute, on my device is my decision and mine alone.
Re: The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
#40Ever since I was given my first computer and was allowed on the internet, I've had NoScript and Adblock installed.
I installed a Pi-hole last week, totally worth. Best amount of time and money I've spent so far this year.