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Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

#62
For DNS-based on openwrt specifically: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking

Try them out and see which one you prefer.

All these work similarly to pihole. If you choose an option that integrates with ipset, you can get slightly stronger than by blocking IPs associated with hostnames.

As others mentioned, it's good to couple with a client-side filter like uBlock origin.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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post #56

Pi-Hole doesn't need an actual Raspberry Pi. The software runs fine on a lot of hardware. I have it dockerized (via ansible) and deployed on a couple of regular mini-PCs. You can run it on a lot of hardware these days, or containerized.

Yea this seems to be a really big misconception. There is nothing magical about pi-hole that requires a Raspberry Pi or even the actual pi-hole software either. It’s just dnsmasq. A generic Linux box running dnsmasq gets you 95% of what branded “pi-hole” gets you.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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post #9

Pi-Hole is not a option, since I don't have one laying around. Why not buy one?

Pi-Hole is the worst-named software. You don’t need to buy a Raspberry Pi to block ads at the DNS layer, and you don’t even need branded pi-hole software. It’s just dnsmasq which can run on anything.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

#66
DNS filtering is good enough these days. I have very few ad-thirsty apps that I need. On my Android VPN + Cromite browser does the job, on my PC uBlock Lite will do it.

Am always using gluetun VPN hosted on a VPS with these two options: BLOCK_ADS=on BLOCK_SURVEILLANCE=on and I don't see any ads anywhere, even on the Twitter site!

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

#67
DNScrypt-proxy on openWRT + Unified blocklist text file is far superior than any of the alternatives in the comments.

It’s not an ”out of the box” solution. But when it’s set up you get encrypted DNS requests and network wide ad blocking.

All in a few megabytes.

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