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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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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.
* Bug, or feature, many fail if the tracking is blocked, due to other code that assumes it's there or depends on it. They fail closed instead of fail open.
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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Bit of an unrealistic comment, this might be a choice you can make for yourself, but most people don't live alone and share their internet connection with others – I doubt telling your partner or housemates to get a new bank because of the DNS ad blocker you set up on the network will go down well. Ad blockers pretty much all rely on community-maintained block-lists, there are always going to be mistakes in those tha…
> 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
Banks and other financial institutions have a duty to prevent fraud and their malicious actors. Could they do better, yes. They still have a duty nonetheless.
Adblockers do more than just domain blocking, such as anti-fingerprinting, bot detection—which includes a lot of, sadly, invasive checks against the browser.
UBlock has annoyance lists, tracking lists, and others and others…
From what you’re telling me, you’re wanting a bank that’s protecting their clients or at least attempting to. Ooookay
Then i use Noscript in Firefox. I also have a VPN server setup whose DNS uses the same Pihole too.
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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.
Maybe not what you’re looking for, but I put adguard home on a VPS (although later switched to a “real” dns software prior to benchmarking) and is faster^1 than connecting directly to cloudflare from home. [1] https://stonegray.ca/dns/#performance Edit: for the curious, I use technetium as the server, nginx to proxy it (security stuff, prioritize traffic from my zerotier network, do DNS/DoT translation, etc) and dock…