Ignorant question: what ad blocking is required outside of your browser to require anything more than something like ublock?
It saves me bandwidth to not serve ads to family members and other guests on my Wi-Fi.
Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?
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#82Got a pihole a few years ago, works like a charm. The only annoyance is when you actually look for produces and nearly all links in google are dead due to ads.
This was a major factor in getting a Kagi subscription for my wife.
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#83a docker of pihole on laptop, adaway on rooted android phone.
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#84On a computer, just uBlock Origin and it works wonders. Tangential question - what is the best solution for iPhone? On Androids you can use Firefox with uBlock, but it seems none of the Safari extensions on iPhone actually work, I tried some paid ones too. Brave seems to work decently well, but I have no idea why - if other browsers have some OS limitation, how does Brave go around it?
Nextdns, install profile on apple devices and block the ads on dns level for all of your devices.
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#85Pi-Hole is not a option, since I don't have one laying around. Why not buy one?
Pi-Hole is the worst-named software. You don’t need to buy a Raspberry Pi to block ads at the DNS layer, and you don’t even need branded pi-hole software. It’s just dnsmasq which can run on anything.
Your comment reminds me a lot of the classic "Dropbox will never succeed, I can just use a Linux box with ftp" hn comment.
It's all about user experience.
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#86Brave
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#87I don't. I pay for premium services which I use often (YouTube and YouTube music mainly) and am okay with free sites funding themselves by showing me ads
Re: Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?
#88On a computer, just uBlock Origin and it works wonders. Tangential question - what is the best solution for iPhone? On Androids you can use Firefox with uBlock, but it seems none of the Safari extensions on iPhone actually work, I tried some paid ones too. Brave seems to work decently well, but I have no idea why - if other browsers have some OS limitation, how does Brave go around it?
I use ublock Origin on the Orion browser on iOS.
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#89Perhaps convoluted for average user, but for me it's on-demand VPN + proxy + DNS with heavy filtering on NS and proxy.
All my devices are connected to it all the time.
Works great with no issues for many years.
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#90Brave
I wonder why this one is not higher up, as the blocking works like a charm
I do have problems updating it on my MacBook though