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Not for your browsers, no. UBlock Origin is far better than any host-based adblocker. I use pihole to block ads inside apps, it's unmatched for that.
That would be a suitable use case, but I don't think I use any apps that contain ads.
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There's no ethics involved in third party ads whatsoever.
You’re getting something you value (video, article, etc.) in exchange for looking at ads instead of paying money. If you don’t want to look at ads, don’t look at the content. Don’t hide behind server requests and technicalities.
Anti-patterns designed to trick us into clicking, signing up, giving up more data, view another few seconds of ads. It never ends! So yeah, we block it. I don't feel sorry. If you don't think it's ethical then you're not paying attention to what's really going on. I used to go around installing Firefox for people before it was called that. Then adblockers, and now I go to people's houses and help them with a raspberry pi loaded with pi-hole. Fuck ads. Fuck that entire industry. And fuck everyone that works in that industry enabling them.
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You can see a screenshot from my VPN pihole blocking tracking requests from my android phone and make a decision do you need it or not. https://i.imgur.com/Hpcw42h.png
Damn, that's amazing.. can't believe 76% of requests are unnecessary. Assuming you're running this on a RPi at home, do you have DynDNS or how are you managing the external IP?
At home I have another pihole running in my router.
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You can see a screenshot from my VPN pihole blocking tracking requests from my android phone and make a decision do you need it or not. https://i.imgur.com/Hpcw42h.png
Without list of sites it blocks those numbers are useless. I could setup to block only news.ycombinator.com and the result would be similar
Openwrt has DNS ad-blocking built in which works just as well as pi-hole. It simply doesn't have the monitoring of what is being blocked but it is rarely needed anyway. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking
If your router hardware is sufficient enough, OpenWRT supports QEMU, so you can run Pi-Hole in that: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/qemu_host
I can't find this anywhere, but does Pi-Hole have any sort of client side 'reload without blocking' functionality? If I were to implement this in my network and a user has issues with a page not loading/functioning correctly, I feel like they'd need my help to add the site to a white list, which would be pretty inconvenient.
I second this. A firefox plugin that is "on" or "off" would be great. I guess FoxyProxy is close if PiHole can act as a SOCKS proxy to do its blocking. Is that one way it can work?
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Yeah I love this attitude. You know you're doing something that is unethical but you ignore that because you got 'em on a technicality. Congrats.
Technicality? Huh? I asked for a document and you sent it so now I'd better make sure I only read it with software that also requests every link in it and runs any code it finds? LOL no. No technicality about it.
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I have run pi-hole on the cheapest tier of Rackspace cloud server for 2+years now with great success. It’s wonderful. Just configure my routers dhcp to set my pi ip for dns and no ads anywhere (YouTube, streaming [except Hulu unfortunately], and general browsing). It’s especially nice now that it seems every company is offering their own streaming apps with ads. Recent example was I wanted to watch an action sports v…
"One thing to consider though is becoming a dns resolver for any random thing on the net. What I did for this was create a bash script that adds the visiting ip to iptables whitelist. Created an impossible-to-guess php page (pi admin uses php so it’s already installed and ready to go) which takes the REMOTE_ADDR and passes it to the bash script to add to iptables." I hesitate to mention this, as it causes heads to ex…
Edit: found this guide https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/ssh/how-to-u...
Looks like I could just create some bookmarks for the ports and open them sequentially.
I think overall this is a much better solution than messing with php/bash - good idea and thanks!
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"One thing to consider though is becoming a dns resolver for any random thing on the net. What I did for this was create a bash script that adds the visiting ip to iptables whitelist. Created an impossible-to-guess php page (pi admin uses php so it’s already installed and ready to go) which takes the REMOTE_ADDR and passes it to the bash script to add to iptables." I hesitate to mention this, as it causes heads to ex…
Pardon my ignorance: can you recommend a good learning material on port knocking?
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There's no ethics involved in third party ads whatsoever.
You’re getting something you value (video, article, etc.) in exchange for looking at ads instead of paying money. If you don’t want to look at ads, don’t look at the content. Don’t hide behind server requests and technicalities.
