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Wouldn't it be more efficient to add blocking on router level? Making all of your devices (at home) ad-free. Anyone exprerienced doing this?
by aapje 11y ago
Wouldn't it be more efficient to add blocking on router level? Making all of your devices (at home) ad-free.
Anyone exprerienced doing this?
- husam212 11y agoShould be very easy to do in OpenWrt and similar firmwares.
- joeblau 11y agoYes, if you had access to every router you use. I travel a lot and have a laptop so I use the blocking via hosts method.
- pjc50 11y agoThere are a couple of products for this already: "AdTrap" and for the Raspberry Pi "pihole". (Content warning on https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ : contains piping curl into bash, slow-loading SPA site)
- awqrre 11y agoI use the Pi-hole setup, but on my desktop computer instead of a RaspberryPi... just follow the instructions to "Setting It Up Manually" [1] 1. http://jacobsalmela.com/block-millions-ads-network-wide-with-a-raspberry-pi-hole-2-0/ http://jacobsalmela.com/block-millions-ads-network-wide-with...
- tombrossman 11y agoPi-hole is great and I had no trouble setting it up, but I couldn't continue using it as it constantly triggered NoScript's ABE (Application Boundaries Enforcer) which blocks scripts served from a LAN address. This is for a good reason, and it may be possible to white-list the Pi in the ABE settings, but I didn't have a good enough understanding of the implications to feel comfortable just allowing it or disabling ABE.
- b3lvedere 11y agoI've installed some home routers with the OpenDNS ip's as DNS servers and a manual block list. Works quite well. It has its flaws of course.