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Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Re: Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Post by literallycancer »

Drumlin wrote: post #126
pavel_lishin wrote: post #93

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Or they'll stop visiting the site.

Does it matter if they stop visiting the site? Considering that they are using resources without giving something back in return? I guess it could be argued that they might be promoting the site to other users. Other than that, they are essentially freeloaders and if a website has too many freeloaders it has to either get rid of them or convert them to something else. Or, I guess, the website could shut down complete…

>Considering that they are using resources without giving something back in return?

Funny. Ads are consuming CPU time and electricity that I pay for in addition to my attention and time, and compromise my decision making. To me, any of those are infinitely more valuable than resources the website expends on serving ads or trying to.

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Post by mwambua »

dmbass wrote: post #21
ckastner wrote: post #12

The installation shortcut given is curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash and one is expected to execute this as root. Yes, I know this is supposed to be a convenience thing, but I wish people wouldn't actively encourage this pattern.

from the article: > Our code is completely open, but piping to bash can be dangerous. For a safer install, review the code and then run the installer locally.

I feel like they should state this first before giving the command. I had to scroll down the page to see this warning.

Anyway, if you decide to live on the edge.. don't copy-paste: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste

Re: Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Post by DanBC »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #168
yunolisten wrote: post #90

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> All of them were weird domains. such as?

I'd like to know too. The pi-hole dev replied and got down voted to death.

I think they've got caught in a broken filter. It might be worth emailing mods to let them know.

Also, if you click the timestamp you should see a [vouch] link. Clicking that helps too.

Re: Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Post by retSava »

arthurfm wrote: post #106
CannisterFlux wrote: post #92

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Here's another one I spotted recently: - Android apps like YouTube and Google News use a built-in browser frame to show navigated-to web pages, rather than opening them in an external browser. The built-in frame uses Chrome tech, without add-ons. They used to allow you to open links by default in an external browser, but not any more.

> The built-in frame uses Chrome tech, without add-ons To block ads in Chrome Custom Tabs [1][2] you can either use Chromer [3] to change the custom tab provider to Brave [4] or use the article mode in Chromer. [1] https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/customtabs [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/5ahlfq/dev_psa_chr... [3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=arun.com.chrom... [4] https…

Just a happy user and not affiliated, but Brave was a hallelujah-moment for me. Never got Firefox to be especially fluid, not even close to Chrome. But Brave, IIUC, takes Chromium and adds some adblocking. It's not perfect, and some ads makes its way in, but it removes quite a lot while still being very snappy. To the best of my knowledge and experience, I can really recommend it.

Now I just hope that Brave doesn't turn out to be too evil :S.

Re: Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Post by joshuamcginnis »

laumars wrote: post #135

For those of us - myself included - who run a hosts file list (either using dnsmasq like Pi-hole or directly), here are the sources that Pi-hole use so you can add to your own solution: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/adlists.defau... There's a few on there I don't use and will look to implement. There's also a few they seem to have missed (perhaps intentionally?) so below I have included the lists I u…

Someone should whip up a little community-driven service that would serve all known ad network hosts.

Re: Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Post by tpxl »

slau wrote: post #87
strictnein wrote: post #66

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The compounds in this medicine are public knowledge, but taking them could be dangerous. For a safer experience, review all medical literature pertaining to these compounds before consuming.

Not really the same. One of the main issues with curl pipes is that the server (or MITM) can detect that the request goes into a pipe. This allows an attacker to display one (safe) source when you view it in your browser on your workstation, or wget it, and serve a different (nefarious) source when you curl/pipe it. So, a more complete analogy would be: a bottle that gives you a safe chemical compound when you extrac…

How can you detect if the output is curl/piped?

Re: Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Post by SamBam »

stagbeetle wrote: post #103
SamBam wrote: post #49

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People greatly overestimate their ability to completely ignore ads, and to make purchasing decisions free from influence. Sure, I believe that I am pretty much completely unaffected ads, but then so does almost everybody else .

Be careful with "I believe that I am pretty much completely unaffected ads, but then so does almost everybody else." This is in the same vein of inductive reasoning as "just snap out of your [insert mental illness/addiction/etc.]." "People," in this context, isn't defined either. If however we were to say that by "people" you mean millennials, then you would be wrong. But if you meant "the population at large" you wo…

...? I think you're misreading my comment. I was suggesting that most people may think they are unaffected by ads, but probably are overestimating their immunity.

My second statement was highlighting how ones own opinion of oneself is not objective.

Re: Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

DanBC wrote: post #175
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #168

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I'd like to know too. The pi-hole dev replied and got down voted to death.

I think they've got caught in a broken filter. It might be worth emailing mods to let them know. Also, if you click the timestamp you should see a [vouch] link. Clicking that helps too.

Thank you, I never knew this.
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