I don’t use an ad blocker on any device.
Despite claims to the contrary by people here on HN, it’s fine.
Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?
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#22I have GL-inet brume 2 which runs in drop in gateway mode alongside my main router, and on it I have AdGuard home
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#23Got a pihole a few years ago, works like a charm. The only annoyance is when you actually look for produces and nearly all links in google are dead due to ads.
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#24I haven't looked at pihole once after I discovered adguard home. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/dns/adguard-hom...
How do you reduce the latency of the upstream DNS resolvers? The closest Cloudflare servers give me 20-25ms DNS resolution times, but with Cloudflare as the upstream DNS in Adguard Home, I'm getting more around 80-110ms.
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#25I’ve used Pi-Hole before, and I had to troubleshoot in a few instances when I was traveling away from home. I stopped using it to simplify my setup. The ideal setup I want to try is to have something like AdGuard Home at the Router. My current setup on our devices already has AdGuard App running with NextDNS as the DNS Resolver. This setup works pretty well while connecting to any network. NextDNS handles the DNS, wh…
I run adguard on a raspberry pi - setup similar to pi-hole. It works well but does not block YouTube ads. Is there a setting I am missing to enable this?
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#26I’ve used Pi-Hole before, and I had to troubleshoot in a few instances when I was traveling away from home. I stopped using it to simplify my setup. The ideal setup I want to try is to have something like AdGuard Home at the Router. My current setup on our devices already has AdGuard App running with NextDNS as the DNS Resolver. This setup works pretty well while connecting to any network. NextDNS handles the DNS, wh…
I run adguard on a raspberry pi - setup similar to pi-hole. It works well but does not block YouTube ads. Is there a setting I am missing to enable this?
I don't think you can do that with Adguard right now. You can use a browser with adblock for desktop/mobile, and there are smart TV apps with adblock and sponsorblock both for Tizen [0] and webOS [1].
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#27Ignorant question: what ad blocking is required outside of your browser to require anything more than something like ublock?
Plenty of "smart" appliances phone home unnecessarily.
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#28Ive got enough "mental fortitude" not to really care that much about ads.
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#29I haven't looked at pihole once after I discovered adguard home. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/dns/adguard-hom...
How do you reduce the latency of the upstream DNS resolvers? The closest Cloudflare servers give me 20-25ms DNS resolution times, but with Cloudflare as the upstream DNS in Adguard Home, I'm getting more around 80-110ms.
Is there a specific way to test that or just nslookup/dig/drill and look at the number there? I want to check this and get back to you.
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#30uBlock origin, or just avoiding the site if it doesn't work.