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It’s on a raspberry pi that is connected to your LAN. It is dns for the LAN and blocks any requests to hosts that are blacklisted
How does this differ from the traditional hosts file that blocks requests to blacklisted hosts?
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It’s on a raspberry pi that is connected to your LAN. It is dns for the LAN and blocks any requests to hosts that are blacklisted
I presume it doesn’t need to be a Raspberry Pi, it could be any host in your LAN?
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It’s on a raspberry pi that is connected to your LAN. It is dns for the LAN and blocks any requests to hosts that are blacklisted
How does this differ from the traditional hosts file that blocks requests to blacklisted hosts?
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It’s on a raspberry pi that is connected to your LAN. It is dns for the LAN and blocks any requests to hosts that are blacklisted
How does this differ from the traditional hosts file that blocks requests to blacklisted hosts?
Since this was about devices and ad-blocking, I expected the Pi-hole to make an appearance. But alas, the author used Brave browser. https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/README.md
(I looked around and the only 'built in' solution I could find for adblocking is in Eero WiFi's paid subscription, which blocks ads on their wifi router)
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Brave works. Lots of propaganda on here against Brave for some reason. It's open source based on chromium with all the Google bits taken out, and it has built in ad blocking. So there's an opt-in crypto coin, so what.
If I could have one thing in Brave, aside from bug fixes, it’s this: rather than give me popup ads on my desktop, replace some of the static ads it blocks with Brave ones. They’re way less intrusive.
Since this was about devices and ad-blocking, I expected the Pi-hole to make an appearance. But alas, the author used Brave browser. https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/README.md
Not only did he not mention PiHole (or the similar, but better, Adguard Home), he didn't seem to be aware that network adblocking is a thing—but who can blame him? It's not exactly trivial unless you're comfortable with a terminal. Is there any sort of commercialized solution for this? I'd love to see Adguard/Pihole devices available off the shelf; with a little marketing I think they could really appeal to a lot of…
Its not built in per se, but its arguably less complicated than replacing a router (or worse, putting one router behind another, as would be required for the many people who's cable/fiber/etc modem is all in one with their router).
Since this was about devices and ad-blocking, I expected the Pi-hole to make an appearance. But alas, the author used Brave browser. https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/README.md
Brave works. Lots of propaganda on here against Brave for some reason. It's open source based on chromium with all the Google bits taken out, and it has built in ad blocking. So there's an opt-in crypto coin, so what.
I think the same reason some people find Google's advertising-based business model problematic, they find Brave's advertising-based business model problematic.
While activities like this may result in the author being less visible to a particular algorithm, I imagine that the instant dropoff from most networks and instant arrival in new networks would be a very strong signal of who they are. The more bizarre tricks you try to stay hidden, the more identifiable you (probably) are.
It's like the scenarios that weren't explored in the https://xkcd.com/1105/ strip: yeah, if it's just one guy with the 1lIl11l license plate, it might attract police attention, but if the guy collaborated with ten others who got similar license plates for similar-looking cars, then that could work to confuse and divert the police.