With all the fervor around ad-blocking what I fail to see is how do you propose those sites that you visit, read their content to make money ? Are you willing to pay every site you visit or encourage them to put up pay walls ??
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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
#42Also, owners or routers able to run OpenWRT (which is actively maintained and in great shape since the merge with LEDE), you have access to several packages providing the same technical solution (DNS-based blocking). As far as I know, the most common and maintained is https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/... .
Super easy to install, full-featured, lots of lists to pick from, auto-updates lists, no need for an additional device, and you will benefit from router features produced by the openwrt community and maybe unavailable in your router proprietary firmware. Much recommended.
If that sounds attractive and it sounds like a good opportunity to change your crumbling unpatched router, the question "what's today's good cheap router running openwrt without trouble?" is frequently answered by https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/ :) .
Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
#43[tinfoilhat] Given that Chrome now became Google's weapon against adblocking, how long until it starts refusing to use Pi-hole specifically? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 [/tinfoilhat]
How would a web browser know which DNS it's using? You set your DNS preference to point to the PI-hole and it should behave like any other DNS server. I guess it could attempt to resolve some spam domain like doubleclick.net and if it was incorrect it could complain...
some of their products already have hardcoded Google DNS. see
https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/8917ci/google_h...
Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
#44if only pi-hole could block the in-app ads that served from the same host :(
sneaky youtube, the ads are becoming more and more
Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
#45A router that I can install Pi-hole and host a VPN on would be a dream.
Most MIPS or ARM router CPUs are significantly underpowered to handle OpenVPN, and high-end routers are expensive now.
If you're intending to use OpenVPN, you could easily justify a basic x86 pfSense or linux router: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-bui...
Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
#46[tinfoilhat] Given that Chrome now became Google's weapon against adblocking, how long until it starts refusing to use Pi-hole specifically? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 [/tinfoilhat]
It already does. This is the purpose of putting a DNS-over-HTTPS resolver into the browser, so you can't bypass it with local resolvers.
Couldn't I sign my own pi-hole and add the certificate to my phone/computer?
Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
#47have a nanopc-t4 laying around that i wanna try for a pi-hole + opnsense install. looks like i'll need to add a usb3 ethernet card unless i want to live with 50% the line speed and putz around with tagged vlans using a single nic...although 50% of 1GBit is a lot more throughput than i can get through my isp.
anyone have this type of setup?
Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
#48Pi-hole is my most prized addition to my connected home. It was simple to set up, easy to manage, and easy to access for whitelisting. Now, all of my devices throughout my network benefit from the service, as opposed to relying on locally installed solutions. If you aren't using it, you should!
Agreed, I combined this with Cloudflare's DNS service (1.1.1.1). A great combo.
What are the advantages of using Cloudflare's DNS as opposed to say Google DNS or your ISP? Tracking?
Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pi-Hole is a very simple DNS based blocker. You can not whitelist ad providers on a origin basis.
They didn't say whitelist ad providers, they said sites. Which you can do with pi-hole.
How does a DNS blocker know what requests are caused by what site? It's a stateless protocol.