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Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by reboot81 »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #20

I’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 got one r-pi zero running pi-hole at .220, and another pi-hole on a server dockerized at .221. If that server goes down, another server has a dockerized pi-hole that takes over the .221 IP. The failover is handled with keepalived.

At parents house they got one r-pi set as DNS 1, and 9.9.9.9 as DNS 2.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by mixmastamyk »

LVB wrote: post #167
Havoc wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Bit of an unrealistic comment For other sites agreed, but a bank that can’t coexist with an adblocker you really have to ask yourself wtf said bank is doing. Everything on that site should come from ad free reputable domains. Also wouldn’t hurt if said bank tested their site with common browser configurations like ublock

Aren't banks sort of the poster children for legacy practices though? Only works with this or that browser, here are some weird password rules, yes I have an SVGA monitor, no I can't search older than 90 days, etc. I'm used to turning off my modern expectations and just getting into the 20 years-old flow for the time I'm logged into the average bank. No, I don't want to switch banks (where my mortgage and dozens of A…

Thankfully legacy practices didn't include advertisements in paid sites, i.e. where you are the customer.

If you value your finances at all, you won't allow advertisers into the connection.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by lazyeye »

DavideNL wrote: post #160
gtk40 wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Also checkout the Mullvad browser which I believe is based on the Tor browser with the Tor bit removed. (You dont need the Mullvad vpn to use it).

https://mullvad.net/en/browser

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by e40 »

nilslindemann wrote: post #68
marssaxman wrote: post #8

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

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

Found out 1Password doesn't work in this, so it killed my plan to switch to it. Currently using Brave, which seems like the next best choice.

Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

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Post by AlgebraFox »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #156

Desktop: uBlock Origin in Firefox Mobile: PiHole running in AWS. I VPN into it, with the VPN configured to only tunnel DNS lookups. Allows me to easily temporarily disable the PiHole by just disconnecting from the VPN. Gives me ad blocking in all apps.

Why AWS? You can do this with a RPi and Tailscale.
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