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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Run a pihole or similar

Your web browser is just one piece of software on your network capable of displaying ads and collecting data

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Network-level adblock cannot replace browser-level adblock and vice versa

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Both… both is good

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That’s reminds me, I should go update mine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm only familiar with pi holes on a cursory level, but you have to update them manually? This is a bit of a turn off.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

You could schedule it with cron. You usually don't need to update the lists very often though, and you don't want to either as you're just wasting the bandwidth of the hosts of the lists, who aren't making any money off hosting them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

You have to type one command:

pihole -up

https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/update/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I thought this requires permission to a router. Can you do this say at a dorm or an apartment where internet is provided for you through a portal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Another user commented that you can run Unbound (the technology used by pihole) on your machine.

Even easier, configure your device to use an ad block DNS resolver. Control D has free ones: https://controld.com/free-dns

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You can always configure the DNS manually on a device you own to ignore the DHCP settings sent from the router and just go directly to the pihole, obviously not as good as it happening automatically, but a good workaround if that's not possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm a bit clueless when it comes to that but certainly interested. Could you maybe go into more detail as to which hardware and software is needed to set that up?

Thanks much in advance!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

So the main software is here https://pi-hole.net/ (and they have good documentation, so I'm not going to repeat the nitty-gritty here)

You obviously need something to run it on, which could be some existing computer that's always on, but (as the name might suggest) a lot of people use some form of Raspberry Pi (or similar) single-board computer.

Pihole will run on basically anything, so you can get an ancient pi and it will still run fine