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@mav Worth noting, relying an a browser extension to block ads is only partially effective at best. A pihole will block ALL ad traffic and tracker traffic at the DNS, so every device you own is protected. This includes very chatty devices like Alexa, smart TVs, and non-browser apps on your computer that all like to phone home. The majority of what my pihole is blocking is telemetry, not ads. Not trying to "um actually", just spreading the word. 4 comments
 running an extra bit of hardware is not ideal. it would be nice if the combined modem-wifi-routers that we already have at home could run pi-hole or similar filters years ago didn't people run custom OSes on some netgear modem-routers?  @rzeta0 @soviut @mav Can't speak for Netgear but you can on Asus and some other makes: OpenWRT and a couple of others. I don't know how resource intensive pihole is but some consumer routers were/are woefully underspecced. Took a different tack here and turned a mini pc into an OpnSense router and added a blacklist that cuts the majority of ads. Might not be everyone's cup of tea though.  This is true but I've been planning to set up a pihole for about a decade and still haven't gotten around to it. Ublock et al take minutes and no money. |
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Yes and, #pfBlockerNG does all that plus supports IP block lists.