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Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by candiddevmike » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:07 PM UTC

sam29681749 wrote: post #15

Ignorant question: what ad blocking is required outside of your browser to require anything more than something like ublock?

Billboards

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by superkuh » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:08 PM UTC

Noscript temporary whitelist only combined with uBlock origin and sponsorblock. A CSS toggle button is important too to be able to read text when the page doesn't display correctly. As well as a "superstop" button to (near) completely end all JS execution in a tab after loading.

After 15 years of using NoScript this way I have developed a sixth sense for the minimal set of individual hostnames/ips need to be JS allowed on a typical site. I'm quite fast at it. But wix.com hosted sites and others like it that have one JS domain required to load another and so on serially 5x deep I just close rather than refreshing the page 5 times.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by sashk » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:11 PM UTC

nextdns for whole network dns if you don't want to host yourself. if you feel like hosting, there is pihole and adguard home.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by cowboylowrez » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:12 PM UTC

I feel sort of odd never having installed an ad blocker, but firefox must do some stuff also because a few websites still complain and tell me to turn it off, whatever "it" is. I'm pretty good with the youtube skip button does that count?

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by cortesoft » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:13 PM UTC

FeistySkink wrote: post #27

sam29681749 wrote: post #15

Ignorant 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.

That isn’t adblocking, though

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by cortesoft » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:14 PM UTC

uncharted9 wrote: post #24

dizhn wrote: post #14

I 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.

What sort of workloads are you doing where 60ms extra time on your DNS lookups is an issue?

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by danpalmer » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:15 PM UTC

uBlock Origin in Chrome and Arc.

I don't like the idea of network level blocking because I have to disable my adblocker due to broken websites on a fairly regular basis, and disabling a network blocker is just too much hassle, especially when thinking about DNS results caching etc.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by berbec » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:18 PM UTC

marssaxman wrote: post #8

Firefox + uBlock Origin works well for me! It's all I use.

I had a pihole for a while, but found ublock was more reliable. Occasionally the dns routing to 127.0.0.1 would wreck havoc on "Smart" devices, such as firetv etc

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by JaggedJax » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:19 PM UTC

Control D for DNS blocking and Ublock origin on all browsers.

It would be nice to setup something locally, but I'm lazy (spend my time on other things) and just want it to work.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by dawnerd » Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 11:20 PM UTC

marssaxman wrote: post #8

Firefox + uBlock Origin works well for me! It's all I use.

I do that plus adguard dns hosted on my local network and I use their paid dns on my phones when remote.