How do you block ads?

How do you block ads?

You're not just using a simple hosts file or browser extension, are you?

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pi-hole.net
github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/files
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give me the quick rundown

What is that?

pi-hole.net

I run it on my raspberry pi, but you can run it on most GNU/Linux distros

>using a pi-hole to block ads
Enjoy shit QoS and reduced speeds

Who is more annoying this guy or the retard with the server who posts it constantly

i taped pieces of paper to cover the ads on my screen

THIS. 100% ad-blocker blocker proof.

Blocked by DNS you nigger

>reduced speeds
lolwut
it literally only uses the server for dns. it doesn't affect speeds at all

>pi-hole.net
Can I download it to my Mint lappy and still use my lappy as daily driver?

Sure but if you take the laptop out of the house, your other devices will have their DNS broken

>Scroll down
>Paper yields to the void every time it is off screen or page is refreshed, requiring you to put more paper on.
Enjoy wasting resources, faggot.

retard

Just ran namebench

8.76 average for the pi running pihole
35.7ms average for 8.8.8.8

Can this be circumvented? My other devices will have their DNS broken even if I don't add them in any way whatsoever or they get added by default?

Well if they continue to use your router (which uses your ISP's DNS server) as a DNS server, they'll be fine.

It's kinda pointless to install pihole and only run it locally though. You might as well just use a hosts file at that point.

Ok, so regarding the broken DNS thing, that's just not right. Simply set your DHCP settings on your modem to use your PiHole server. Then everything on your network will get ad filtering, you leave, you get ads again.

It can't really be circumvented locally. So long as your lists are up to date, you're good.

Does this do a better job than an addon? No. What it does do though, is block apps on all devices (including my Xbox) and any apps on your phone, without requiring any extra software. So different is the answer.

I run mine in a VM on my server but only use it locally. I can set it up outside my network, but my uplink speed is too slow. Waiting for a better connection.

Got questions? Ask them.

What you mean pointless? What about ISP's selling your DNS data to 3rd parties? If I use pihole as a DNS spoofer from my ISP, would it work that way?

If you're not blocking ads with your firewall/router made from your explosive optiplex we all bought years ago then you don't belong here.

If the DNS query isn't cached, it just forwards it to google dns/opendns/your isp/whoever you set it up as. I believe it defaults to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 which are Google IPs

I say it's pointless because the whole point of it is to not just block requests locally. You'd be just as well served using a regular hosts file or an adblocker.

The power of it (or any self-run dns system) is that you can block not just ads on your system, but also telemetry from your roku, ads on your plex server, etc.

Not unless you're using DNSCrypt. Pi-Holes only act as DNS relays. You still reach out to whatever DNS server is configured to be used by the Pi-Hole.

Even if it's not by your ISP, they can intercept or fuck with the connection, so it doesn't provide privacy.

If you set up DNSCrypt, you can connect to a DNS server via SSL which will mask everything so it can't be intercepted. Only issue is the DNS server still knows everything you request, and they're unreliable as fuck in general. d0wn have some great servers, but they go up and down like crazy.

Search for DNSCrypt, understand it and work from there :)

Yep, agree with this. There are some performance benefits as well, but only after you've cached the first request.

I can see some important info with the pihole. Requests being made, requests blocked and how many hits according to your pic so that's better than just using a hosts file. But yes, I would only like to use it on my lappy for my lappy for now.

que

>You're not just using a simple hosts file or browser extension, are you?
RAMlets BTFO!

Why not just use your router? github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/files

>Why not just use your router?

Not all routers support it, but also there's a lot of stats and network state information you can draw from the Pi-Hole. It's quite good on that front.

Pic related.

Pihole can't serve requests over HTTPS. If you don't have port 443 blocked, then the requests will time out and slow shit down.

I'm too poor to buy a pi at the moment, but you gave me the idea of actually starting a Linux guest and letting that thing deal with that shit using less memory

have an actual example?

ive noticed zero slowdown when using https

That's a shit pic.. You are correct though. This is why the Pi-Hole isn't better than an addon.

Most often you're still better off timing out than loading the content.

Debian is the best option given it's designed for Raspberrian. If you're doing it on a local computer, fuck that noise off and use addons.

>That's a shit pic.. You are correct though. This is why the Pi-Hole isn't better than an addon.
Ultimately you are probably better off having both.

ublock to block the request in the first place (from the browser) and pihole to catch all your other devices, mobile devices, telemetry, etc

Agreed. This is what I have.

Let's be honest, people will almost never use that functionality. Anyone who actually wants detailed statistics would just run pfSense. It's pretty colors.

I'm not saying it's bad, just that the capabilities it provides probably aren't worth having a separate device sitting there even if it is a pi.

But I guess if you have one sitting around it's not a horrible idea.

I use it. I noticed some weird connection that I hadn't picked up in my Tomato logs.

PFSense is a whole other beast entirely. It serves a wholly different purpose. I get that functionality out of my router.

I'm running mine as a VM anyways, so it's fuck all extra overhead.

>It serves a wholly different purpose
I don't see how. You're looking to inspect and block traffic.

Whats the best way to block ads on Android?

I have an S7 edge btw.

You're not doing packet inspection with a Pi-Hole. It doesn't sit as an edge device or router, it runs independently on your network with a single NIC.

PFSense will do everything. Pi-Hole is a single use tool that does a specific thing.

DNS66. Get it from F-Droid.

It runs a VPN on your device that intercepts all your DNS calls and blocks them. They run very light and it's very fast.

pf is an unstable piece of shit, I'll never use it again and advise you to do the same

Would that also take care of youtube ads?

Im fucking annoyed that 9 times out of 10 the ads load faster than the actual content.

Yes, but why would you install a device that only does one thing when there are better options? Including OpenWRT or pfSense. More devices, more latency, more vulnerability.
And don't try to strawman on the latency comment plox.

Blocking trough hostfile is fine. But since i'm not a poor fag, and have more than one computer, its easier to use pi-hole

OPNSense.

Forked and written on a different backend. It looks like it's going to be the cats own ass in time.

Alternately, Sophos' UTM is a great platform.

I honestly don't know. I use Google Music, so I have YouTube Red. Sorry mate.

The better option is being assessed in a bubble. Electricity where I live is expensive, it is unreasonable to run old hardware for the sake of being a router. There's also cost (in time and hardware) associated with this plan as you need 2 supported NICs and to get it set up.

A Pi-Hole adds no latency, you have to do DNS lookups either way (I'll post a benchmark of my network in a minute). It is in fact faster. Adding a Bastion Host like pfSense definitely adds overhead/latency because you're adding an extra router.

I think I pick up about 2ms latency for uncached queries. I also extended the cache life in DNSMasq, so I get a lot more hits than misses.

Benchmarks inc.

I find Blokada from F-Droid to be better than DNS66

Androidfag again.

F-Droid keeps saying the download for DNS66 is unsuccessful. What do?

10. 1. 1.250 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
+ Cached Name | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 100.0 |
+ Uncached Name | 0.013 | 0.120 | 0.328 | 0.091 | 100.0 |
+ DotCom Lookup | 0.010 | 0.079 | 0.176 | 0.077 | 100.0 |
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
SkyHole
Local Network Nameserver

61. 9.211. 1 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
- Cached Name | 0.008 | 0.010 | 0.015 | 0.001 | 100.0 |
- Uncached Name | 0.012 | 0.116 | 0.318 | 0.091 | 100.0 |
- DotCom Lookup | 0.010 | 0.074 | 0.176 | 0.078 | 100.0 |
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
dns-cust.woo.bigpond.net.au
ASN-TELSTRA Telstra Pty Ltd, AU

61. 9.211. 33 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
- Cached Name | 0.008 | 0.011 | 0.015 | 0.001 | 100.0 |
- Uncached Name | 0.011 | 0.119 | 0.324 | 0.090 | 100.0 |
- DotCom Lookup | 0.010 | 0.047 | 0.176 | 0.065 | 100.0 |
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
dns-cust.cha.bigpond.net.au
ASN-TELSTRA Telstra Pty Ltd, AU


The third (bottom) server is returning some whack bullshit. It was jumping all over the place during testing. I ran this test every 5 minutes for an hour recently. The difference between my Pi-Hole and the ISP DNS was measurable but meaningless (2-4 ms on average).

You've gone away from my point.
If you are looking for detailed information use something like pfSense.
If you are looking for simplicity use OpenWRT or spend $50 on a new router from Mikrotik or something.

give blokada a try. its on f-droid

The paper covers the whole screen.

For what reason?

Make sure your F-Droid is up to date. I've never had a download issue before. Sorry :\

>You've gone away from my point.
The guy who was talking about it being a bad option for latency reasons. Either way, you do you. Tomato and Pi-Hole are working just fine for me.

I could not find it in the repository. Maybe Im retarded?

Blokada for ad blocking. I find it to run leaner than DNS66.

>google play music

I used that last night. It doesn't even give you a progress bar.

Disregard this. I suck cocks.

Does it block youtube ads too?

Where'd you get your F-Droid APK from? I found Blokada too..

Yeah it does? Down the bottom, small orange bar.

They use the same technique, so if one works, the other will.

Oh wait, it does have one. Now I just need to fix this horrible orange theme.

Yeah, it is fucking gross.

you have to add more filter lists tho

filterlists.com/

man, i would love to have this

>or browser extension
Literally the most powerful solution because it can deal with adblock blockers and embedded ads, plus it can apply cosmetic fixes after it removes the ad. hosts and DNS based solutions are simply dealing with incomplete information, they cannot and by design won't be able to compete with extensions.

If I start having problems, can I just reset the modem and everything go back the way it was?

If you're talking about the Pi-Hole, all you need to do is reset your DHCP settings back to default and it goes back to normal.

It's nothing too complex :)

>Not using a browser extension

Enjoy seeing all that ad space because your methods don't do visual element blocking.

Checkmate atheists

blocking does not work, you need to click them

Can your """superior""" Pi-hole do this?

Fools dns

adnauseum.
fakes clicks

lol wtf update your lists guys... Only 100k websites blocked? you must love ads

always one shitposter in this thread

brainlet here, can someone give me a quick rubdown on how to use this on wangblows? Let's begin with step 1, acquiing a raspberry pi

Was it worth the (small) amount of effort?

xD

shoot before you think next time

>using on wangblows
>raspberry pi
BOI

yes, install openvpn and only use the vpn for pihole dns requests, a little slow tho

10x yes. i'm in shock when i'm on public wifi now and i see ads. +1 life quality

how about you pastebin the lists faggot

>escaping ad botnets but forwarding all of your DNS to google

Pi hole blocks google telemetry? Can I use it to block google at all?
Also I'm interested in a local DNS cache, I remember to read that pihole clean its cache every 5 mins
Has anyone tried to use it as a permanent DNS cache too?

implying I use google - DNSwatch is ok

a hosts file that retards run on a raspberry pi and larp like they arnt just wasting time or energy.

1) buy raspberry pi
2) install pihole
3) adjust router settings to make the pihole your primary dns
4) ???
5) profit

You could put in a wildcard block for *google* and it would block all domains with google in the name

>24,000 requests for cdn.samsungcloudsolution.com
find the device responsible for these dns requests and throw it into the fucking trash

>not just adding the botnet hostnames to your own dns file on your device
>not just using your computer and not running a mememachine 24/7

How do you block your telemetry and ads on non-browser programs? Would love to know how to edit my host files on my PS4. Thanks.

use google dns
update manually my host file
ublock origin in default
what's telemetry

Mate, why are you using botnet DNS? Looks like you're sending tons of requests to Google DNS servers.

been a while since I fucked with games, when I quit xbawx the ads were only just starting to show up.
Id try doing a bridged connection and edit your host file and see if that blocks them.
if not, you can run the same shit on your computer that the raspberry pi runs.

How can you fuckers not be using this? Do you even technology?

my wife found out that i fap to cuckhold porn because of pihole

post list please.

uBlock Origin

Or I could not be autistic like you and just setup a pi hole thing and filter it all network-wide.

I do the same with dnsmasq on my dgnd4000. Without stupid guis.

oh, I didnt realize you were retarded.
>because only raspberry pis are capable of receiving network traffic