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I disagree. While DNS-based blocking can block more advertisements on mobile devices, such as in-app advertisements or in browsers without extension/content blo

I disagree. While DNS-based blocking can block more advertisements on mobile devices, such as in-app advertisements or in browsers without extension/content blocker support, it's nowhere near as flexible and a major pain to work around in case of false positives. Furthermore, it only works on your local network (it will be abused for DNS amplification DDoS attacks if you open it to the world), and requires dedicated hardware. It's nowhere near as easy to set up or as flexible as a browser addon.

notum 9y ago
uBlock Origin is indeed incredibly easy to enable, that's why It's my backup when I'm away from home (and I use it on Firefox/Aurora for Android when mobile). However you might be overstating the difficulty of deploying a DNS server a tiny bit, especially Pi-Hole. You don't need dedicated hardware per-se, but a small investment in the form of a Raspberry PI (even Zero is fine) makes the deployment almost trivial in most environments. I'd also recommend looking into Orange PI, not only is it cheaper but I believe it's also POE powered, making it even more elegant on supported routers and switches. Install, use it's IP as the DHCP DNS entry, done. It comes with real time stats so false positives are relatively easy to identify, I've never had to do it.