I haven't tried DNS solutions yet. But there are many services I pay for that still serve me ads and it might be worth it.
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150 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 8 Dec
I've used Pihole for years as well as uBlock origin. When I don't have them it's painful. There are no solutions, only tradeoffs. Sometimes I need to disable uBlock. That's easy. Sometimes someone in the house needs to disable pihole. They can switch their DNS on I can temporarily (automatic toggle) Pihole.
I seriously do not know how people use the Internet without DNS filtering and script blocking. The Internet is a cespool of ads and trash. The tradeoff on these tools are worth it to me.
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4 sats \ 0 replies \ @gbks 8 Dec
And that's what's driving everyone to use AI - right now it does not have that clutter.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 8 Dec
There was a point where I had fiddled with my ublock settings to such an extent that lots of website weren't working.
I love the concept of ad blocking, but then I have to pay a bill or I have my kids do some educational thing (eg Khan Academy) and the adblocker breaks the website and I have to turn it off. I know they have a little toggle for that, but I find that it doesn't work as smoothly as I'd like.
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150 sats \ 1 reply \ @aljaz 8 Dec
routing through datacenter ip ranges as he suggests has downsides - you'll see a lot more captchas and some websites might outright refuse to serve you because you're not coming from a residential ip
not all ips are created equal
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77 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Dec
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @88b0c423eb 8 Dec
install adguardhome on your router and home server. optionally open ports and use it everywhere
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 8 Dec
damn bro, you still see ads? do you even know how to use a computer?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @MattInTech 8 Dec
ublock origin is your friend.
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