Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
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Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
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Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
#2My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the problem.
Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
#3> Uses random upstream resolvers from the configuration - increases your privacy through the distribution of your DNS traffic over multiple provider
Is that the consensus? I thought this would just increase the amount of parties that have insight. eg if today it sends my CNN news reading to cloudflare and tomorrow it sends it to 9999 resolver then that seems worse than sending both to cloudflare.
Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
#4> Uses random upstream resolvers from the configuration - increases your privacy through the distribution of your DNS traffic over multiple provider
The whole project is really interesting but this line caught my eye.
For spreading DNS providers, would randomly routing to different ones be more or less private than rotating providers every X minutes? It feels like so many sites request so many different resources that if you make DNS resolution distributed across providers, you might be exposing your "trail" to multiple companies at the same time, compared to an alternative approach of switching every X minutes so that any individual company only sees a snapshot of your queries in time rather than your whole journey.
Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
#5why would I use this over something like Adguard Home?
Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
#6My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the pro…
I’ve been using https://oisd.nl/ on my network for some time (just cronned into an unbound config file) and nothing breaks.
If you report a website breaking to the maintainer, he removes the offending block.
Works well, I can recommend it.
And it reminds my to send them a little money in thanks.
Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
#7It's a DNS proxy, like pi-hole, but it seems a lot more powerful than Pi-hole that is basically just a configured dnsmasq server to be user-friendly.
Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
#8My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the pro…
Is that your experience? Honest question, because only yesterday, after several years with PiHole and uBlock Origin, I found that a Shopify shop wasn't working for me. But that's probably the only issue I encountered after all those years...
Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
#9why would I use this over something like Adguard Home?
Very interesting project too !
Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network
#10My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the pro…
Is that your experience? Honest question, because only yesterday, after several years with PiHole and uBlock Origin, I found that a Shopify shop wasn't working for me. But that's probably the only issue I encountered after all those years...
I've come across a few borking issues, including online banking because card rewards are counted as advertising in the list(s) I use.
Such problems are few and far between, though, and it wasn't that hard to figure out what to whitelist (granted I'm a computer nerd, not everyone is).