I tried using Pi-Hole but I have so many trouble with IPv6 DNS not working that I just gave up...
Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
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#312Default settings use remote, shared DNS caches run by an advertising company. Regardless, this is a step in the right direction. DNS is highly effective for this filtering out advertising. Personally I just run my own authoritative nameserver(s) with all the IP addresses I need. No recursive cache. When I browse to websites where I have never been and may not return, I am never using graphical browser that loads "res…
I really like the approach. This is where the net is headed. Graphical browsing is unnecessary in a way. Now, the only issue with that is the way the web is currently heading. A site hosted at aws or cloudfront is hard to whitelist...
A domain like *.amazonaws.com has nothing to offer that I have ever seen, pure rubbish. Blocking it will stop ads in mobile apps.
Cumulatively I think AWS is adding a hefty amount of latency.
The way their DNS is configured is often convoluted, requiring excessive layers of gratuitous lookups. It sometimes borders on absurd, much worse than I have ever seen with CDNs.
Fastly is doing a much better job with minimizing DNS queries. Certainly better than Akakami ever did.
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#313I definitely hate ads like anyone, but it should be acknowledged that ads serve a purpose too, of creating an economy for free content and giving people an avenue to get some income in exchange for their efforts, and possibly be able to devote their full attention to a free project and not have to support themselves with other income. Ads give creators some incentive to create stuff - although the income generally is…
I've maintained for a long time that the ad networks themselves are the problem, not advertising as a whole. There is a place for video advertising (around content that is also video), there is a place for audio advertising (on the radio, around podcasts, on music services), and there is even a place for animated, interactive advertisements, on sites that are expected to dance and move anyway, like online games. The…
I agree with this. One of the places I don't mind advertising at all is podcasts. Typically it's a short 10-20 seconds, integrated into the content, products relevant to the audience and none of the tracking or security risks that come with traditional online advertising.
Some great examples of this are the TWiT network and the Co-Optional podcast.
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've maintained for a long time that the ad networks themselves are the problem, not advertising as a whole. There is a place for video advertising (around content that is also video), there is a place for audio advertising (on the radio, around podcasts, on music services), and there is even a place for animated, interactive advertisements, on sites that are expected to dance and move anyway, like online games. The…
> Watch an NFL broadcast and observe the product placement, the logos and sponsors everywhere. It's organic, integrated into the very fiber of the broadcast in a way that couldn't be blocked with even the most sophisticated blocking software. As an aside, I've seen multiple cases of live video-processing to replace or overlay advertisements on sporting events, such as those plastered on the walls of arenas. (Generall…
I wonder how long before someone writes an ad-blocker that can remove or replace those video-processed overlays. I mean, if they can put them there in the first place, it ought to be easy to remove them.
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
The emphasis makes it pretty clear that the statement you're quoting was an ironic one.
What's your interpretation of it, because I still don't see it.
"Sure I believe" was quite clearly not meant to be taken literally, as evidenced by the very next half of the sentence.
It's like saying "sure, I think think that I'm smarter than everybody else, but then so does everybody else."
My point was that people should not take their own assessment of themselves as strong objective evidence about themselves.
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#316what about windows ? :(
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#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great for a lot of things, but I find I suffer from "subscription fatigue" lately where I'm reluctant to sign up for anything new because the amount of subscriptions slowly gets out of control. It might work for netflix and other giants but I'm not sure if it's viable for smaller players.
I think there's a business opportunity for someone to build a subscription management service that acts as an intermediary between users and those smaller players. Make it easy for users to subscribe / unsubscribe, track free trial periods, provide customer service, etc.
Patreon is kind of like that...
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Watch an NFL broadcast and observe the product placement, the logos and sponsors everywhere. It's organic, integrated into the very fiber of the broadcast in a way that couldn't be blocked with even the most sophisticated blocking software. As an aside, I've seen multiple cases of live video-processing to replace or overlay advertisements on sporting events, such as those plastered on the walls of arenas. (Generall…
I wonder how long before someone writes an ad-blocker that can remove or replace those video-processed overlays. I mean, if they can put them there in the first place, it ought to be easy to remove them.
What an idea! You are the devil incarnate!
I've thought about that many times when watching old sports videos, especially some motor racing and football which used to have very prominent cigarette advertising - thankfully illegal now here in Australia.
Often the ads are blurred which I actually don't like as it kind of ruins the feel of the show. I'm not a fan of such retroactive censorship, it feels historically dishonest. What is a film if not a recording of the zeitgeist? And within that zeitgeist, cigarette advertising was acceptable. I'm not sure if it's actually required legally as I could have sworn that I've seen some without the blurring.
Customisable TV ads is not an idea I'd be prepared to release onto the world. If there's one thing that humanity doesn't need, it's more advertising.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then you whitelist individual pages and assets.
...and never see new content? What if the New York Times decided to host all ads themselves? nytimes.com/ad-42.jpg couldn't be distinguished from nytimes.com/todays-front-page-image.jpg Obviously it's more likely for ad ad-provider like Google to do this, but even then, if there's new content from Google (say a blog post) I expect to be able to see it.
This is if Google hosted ads at google.com/*
You could whitelist the search results page and nothing else.
Viewing a blog post is less important IMO.
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#320For 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…
Just chiming in in case anyone finds these useful, my filter lists (600k):
https://hosts-file.net/download/hosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/alternates/fakenews-gambling/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawsey21/Lists/master/main-blacklist.txt
https://ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch/downloads/RW_DOMBL.txt
https://raw.github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/master/domains.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt
https://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malware.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer/master/anti-adblock-killer-filters.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
http://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
http://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt
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