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Can you explain how you do that?

by youou 9y ago

edjw 9y ago
> Can you explain how you do that? Probably Pi-Hole running on. Raspberry Pi. https://pi-hole.net https://pi-hole.net
- ryandrake 9y ago
  Yea, not exactly Pi-Hole, but the same concept. dnsmasq running on router, with a big list of ad-serving domains and hosts resolving to 0.0.0.0
  - fb03 9y ago
    Wow, nice and simple. Is that list available in some repository? would like to implement that since I run a dnsmasq bearing router at my home border as well.
    - Pete_D 9y ago
      I do the same - my approach was to take some of the popular /etc/hosts files (like http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero) and sed them into dnsmasq format: # before: 0.0.0.0 evil.biz # after: address=/evil.biz/0.0.0.0 sed 's#^0\.0\.0\.0[[:space:]]*$[^:]*$$#address=/\1/0.0.0.0#' which goes in a file in /etc/dnsmasq.d/, with this line in /etc/dnsmasq.conf: conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d The results can be trimmed a lot, e.g. if you have rules for a.evil.biz and b.evil.biz, you can usually reduce those to a rule for just evil.biz. I wrote some scripts to help with this, which are now at https://petedeas.co.uk/dnsmasq/ https://petedeas.co.uk/dnsmasq/. I might write something up about the process later.
    - ryandrake 9y ago
      Here's a nice repo with a "starting point" for hostnames and domains to block: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists
j_s 9y ago
Most recently: November Workshop: Running the Pi-hole Network-wide Ad-blocker, and more | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15608052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15608052 Related discussions (click the 'comments' links): https://hn.algolia.com/?query=netguard&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=netguard&sort=byDate&type=comm...
waspleg 9y ago
I loathe ads and tracking. I run ublock origin/https everywhere/privacy badger (the latter of those 2 are from the EFF). I run a dedicated pfsense machine (old optiplex 755 with an old ssd) I added a nic to it. All network traffic must physically flow through it (1 nic goes to lan 1 goes directly to the cable modem). It's running pfblockerng and DNSBL with a bunch of sources. It's amazing. I can watch youtube videos on my smart tv in the living room streaming with 0 ads.

Can you explain how you do that?

by youou 9y ago

Can you explain how you do that?

edjw 9y ago

> Can you explain how you do that? Probably Pi-Hole running on. Raspberry Pi. https://pi-hole.net https://pi-hole.net

ryandrake 9y ago
Yea, not exactly Pi-Hole, but the same concept. dnsmasq running on router, with a big list of ad-serving domains and hosts resolving to 0.0.0.0
- fb03 9y ago
  Wow, nice and simple. Is that list available in some repository? would like to implement that since I run a dnsmasq bearing router at my home border as well.
  - Pete_D 9y ago
    I do the same - my approach was to take some of the popular /etc/hosts files (like http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero) and sed them into dnsmasq format: # before: 0.0.0.0 evil.biz # after: address=/evil.biz/0.0.0.0 sed 's#^0\.0\.0\.0[[:space:]]*$[^:]*$$#address=/\1/0.0.0.0#' which goes in a file in /etc/dnsmasq.d/, with this line in /etc/dnsmasq.conf: conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d The results can be trimmed a lot, e.g. if you have rules for a.evil.biz and b.evil.biz, you can usually reduce those to a rule for just evil.biz. I wrote some scripts to help with this, which are now at https://petedeas.co.uk/dnsmasq/ https://petedeas.co.uk/dnsmasq/. I might write something up about the process later.
  - ryandrake 9y ago
    Here's a nice repo with a "starting point" for hostnames and domains to block: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

j_s 9y ago

Most recently: November Workshop: Running the Pi-hole Network-wide Ad-blocker, and more | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15608052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15608052 Related discussions (click the 'comments' links): https://hn.algolia.com/?query=netguard&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=netguard&sort=byDate&type=comm...

waspleg 9y ago

I loathe ads and tracking. I run ublock origin/https everywhere/privacy badger (the latter of those 2 are from the EFF). I run a dedicated pfsense machine (old optiplex 755 with an old ssd) I added a nic to it. All network traffic must physically flow through it (1 nic goes to lan 1 goes directly to the cable modem). It's running pfblockerng and DNSBL with a bunch of sources. It's amazing. I can watch youtube videos on my smart tv in the living room streaming with 0 ads.