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No doubt the reduction is important, however as per screenshots, the reported reduction should be considered somewhat inaccurate as he forgot to check "Disable cache" for the Pi-Hole version, while it is checked for the non-Pi-Hole version. We can see resources pulled from browser cache in the Pi-Hole version.
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This should just be dnsmasq, for which source code is readily available and inspectable. You can (and should) compile it yourself if you don’t trust someone else’s binary. You can also inspect the block lists to ensure they all go to 0.0.0.0 if you’re worried about mitm attacks.
you could do the same with ublock
Should be noted this is useful not just for ads, but also for devices phoning home and collecting metrics. Things like Win10, Netflix, smart TVs, etc. You don't have to use every blocklist on the planet if you don't want it to screw up normal web browsing.
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I think the news sites are thinking the same thing. "I don't want you to use my network and computational resources (to read the news) without compensation (watching our ads/mining our coin/etc)"
In that case, these news businesses should not be publishing content on the World Wide Web. Users pay for devices, electricity, and monthly network connection, These publishers seem to be stuck in the last epoch. A website is not a finished product like a book or newspaper, it is publicly-accessible data. Users can scrape, restyle, delete, and add content _at will_ whenever they choose to download this content. So th…
Since he was pointing out scammers buying popular extensions: I would like to mention that this is a chrome specific problem. Something like this isn't common with firefox addons.
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Longtime uMatrix user here. The most frustrating thing about UM (which is the same problem I had with NoScript back in the day) is that some scripts call other scripts. So, particularly when I'm trying to play an embedded video served by another site served through a CDN, the process for getting the damn video to play is something like: Click video -> Open uMatrix -> whitelist some scripts -> reload -> whitelist more…
90% of the time, I just don't do that dance and not watch the video.
So I have tried using pi-hole in past and I think one of the problems is - some websites refusing to function if ads are blocked. IIRC - British Airways website uses some javascript that requires ad to be disabled for finishing checking in. It may have changed now but there are other websites too which may or may not work as expected. With browser extensions it is typically easy to disable the ad blocker one time and…