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Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by cowboylowrez »

corobo wrote: post #123
cowboylowrez wrote: post #34

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?

Likely referencing Firefox's enhanced tracking protection. You can control it with the lil purple shield icon to the left of the address bar (not that you're obliged to disable it for some website just because they asked, of course!) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...

+1 informative!

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by cf100clunk »

ryandrake wrote: post #64
hnbear wrote: 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.

> dnsmasq

Check out running dnsmasq with dnscrypt-proxy too.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by pmw »

cyberpunk wrote: post #145
AStonesThrow wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NextDNS was working a treat for me, and it was only through NextDNS's meticulous logging that I immediately discovered that my consumer grade router was hopelessly compromised: joined a botnet, trafficking porn, IDK. So I threw the router out the window, and signed up to rent CPE from my ISP; edge router security is now 100% their responsibility!

What’s a CPE?

It's an networking term to distinguish between ISP-owned and customer-owned equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer-premises_equipment

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by g8oz »

rsyring wrote: post #43
marssaxman wrote: post #8

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

Ditto except NextDNS as default on my network for DNS blocking. I can switch to cloudflare DNS in Firefox to circumvent DNS routing which is occasionally necessary, mostly to make email links work.

NextDNS is definitely worth the money. Setting up profiles for your kids devices is very useful functionality as well.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by crossroadsguy »

Safari: Adblock, Hush (will stop the day any FOSS browser becomes closer to it in speed and resource usage; I doubt it as Safari literally comes baked with OS)

Firefox: uBlockOrigin, AdBlocker for YouTube, Adguard, Disconnect, DDG Privacy Essentials, Sponsor Block for YouTube, Unhook (Firefox is used very little, just because compared to Safari it is still sluggish on Mac)

On iPhone: tried NextDNS (and few more things) but result was such a mess that I stopped.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by DavideNL »

gtk40 wrote: post #140
nilslindemann wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same addon, but prefer Ungoogled Chromium as browser. Chrome, Firefox, Brave etc. have too many features I never asked for.

I just use Firefox and disable Pocket, search suggestions, and everything on the new tab page and it feels fine to me.

Same, but discovered a nice alternative Firefox fork recently: Floorp

https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp

https://floorp.app/

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