I tried this but it was very slow
Mmm, Pi-hole
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#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your views are factually incorrect, don’t suggest any real solution, and in my view somewhat extremist. A realistic solution must consider the in turn actions of all influential parties invloved. It’s economics. It’s requires modeling, strategies, and thinking equally about all parties because it doesn’t matter whether you like them or not it matters what the future would look like a few years out. This is not person…
> Extremist You say that like it's a bad thing. Once you've stretched the limits of acceptability beyond the capacity of short-term memory, anything of a 'compromise' is just a token dilution that keeps the same status quo intact in everything except a temporary face-saving apology. A realistic solution must consider the actions of all parties involved, but it doesn't have to actually appease any of those parties wit…
Sounds like this is against your beliefs, but I'd pay to read your newsletter.
Re: Mmm, Pi-hole
#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
The simplest approach is to use a hosts file: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
The issue with that is DNS resolution. I noticed that when I disconnect/reconnect my interface, it took >30 seconds for DNS resolution to properly resolve. Why? Because I was using a 65,000 entry host file on my modern Windows 10 machine. It seems to only impact during NIC changes, but I VPN and was moving my computer enough that it was causing me issue. I'd rather have a separate service to run it.
I also had a performance problem with DNS resolution with a big host file, but disbling the DNS client service helped.
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#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s essentially dnsmasq which can be run directly on your wireless router if you are using custom firmware. No separate hw needed, no need to horse around with dockers or containers or any of that stuff. I’d guess a lot of people are already running dnsmasq for other purposes, so adding the blocklist and periodically updating it should be trivial.
Can anyone recommend a "2018 good choice" for a consumer router that can run custom firmware (including dnsmasq), or a trustworthy recommendation website? Wirecutter for example doesn't note third party firmware: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router/
The TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750.
https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500
I was looking for an openwrt-compatible router a few weeks ago, this is 2018's consensual cheap & able & easy-to-install router. It's easily the most frequently recommended home router for openwrt these days. And yes, openwrt's Adblock package is awesome.
And to come back to your original question, to do your own research, I recommend you search/ask on https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/ and https://forum.openwrt.org/ , it's a question that pops up frequently.
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#395Honestly, considering how cheaply you can implement this (I resurrected an unused OrangePiZero), how easily it can be used (just plug it into a router LAN socket), it's crazy that the creators aren't actively looking to monetize this
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are being compensated...but you are not being informed for what. As an example, lets say you borrow my truck. You compensate me for the use of my truck to move some boxes in town. But then you use my truck to tow a trailer across the country. That is more wear and tear on the vehicle. And then you take my personal information that is on my vehicle registration with my home address and sell that to an ad company.…
Except it is nothing like that.
When you go to a website are your informed how much bandwdith will be ad only?
How about what is done with your personal information?
When you visit a website are you shown which tracking cookies will be left behind?
You cannot stop visiting the site, once you have visited the ads have been loaded, the cookies have been dropped and your info has been mined.
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except it is nothing like that.
When you go to a website are your informed how much bandwdith will be ad only? How about what is done with your personal information? When you visit a website are you shown which tracking cookies will be left behind? You cannot stop visiting the site, once you have visited the ads have been loaded, the cookies have been dropped and your info has been mined.
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#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would absolutely pay $10 a month to an aggregator like HN or /. that then paid publishers a portion of that based on article rank and/or number of clicks through.
Yes, agree that fixed-price deals with publishers / aggregators are tenable. Spotify works for people, for example. The original argument was essentially that there was a minimum transaction size that was cognitively viable at scale.
Well, Spotify works for the consumer. For the musicians, it's mostly advertising, not a useful source of income.
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#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand it's about cognitive costs. What I propose makes the cognitive load of actual monetary payment a single decision per month. I pay X. Let the aggregator and the publishers automatically figure out every little fractional detail.
If the objective of paying is to make the web better and reward quality content, you don't want two pages of clickbait to pay more than one page of watergate-level investigative reporting. And any automated system to tell clickbait from quality journalism will incentivise people to trick it. So at the very least, you need a refund button.
they could do it like medium “claps”.
No claps, no money.
Clap as long as you want.
At the end of each month your $10 is divided up by the number of claps you gave.
And if this isn’t for you, then go with ads or be paywalled.
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#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't find it, it may have been on chat. But I did find a very similar request here with a work around: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/49ckht/feature_requ... So I understand you don't control the lists, but you do control the oobe and it seems like it might not be working for some people.
That post is 2 years old, and the op understood and was ok with the outcome... Oobe is either 1)leave suggested defaults as is 2)don't use those lists. Option 2 is available in the installer before you're even up and running. There is only so much hand holding we can do, to be fair. We have an extensive support community, and plenty of documentation, and yes, whilst I agree some users may fall between the cracks, the…
There is no doubt that pihole works for some people. I'm just giving my honest review: it didn't work for me. It blocked too much. I asked for guidance and got a lecture about privacy.
And I did find a solution, just not with you product :)