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if you have an extra raspberry pi laying around you can install an ad blocker for your entire network with pi-hole.
by seangrant 9y ago
if you have an extra raspberry pi laying around you can install an ad blocker for your entire network with pi-hole.
- kqr 9y agoOr configure whatever caching DNS serveryou currently have installed on your LAN to do the same. Oh, you don't have a DNS cache on your LAN? Strongly recommended for performance reasons, if not privacy as well. I don't remember what actual measurements I ended up with, but latency realmy hurts!
- regecks 9y agoAn alternative: I run dnscrypt-proxy locally, encrypting (TLS) all my DNS traffic between me and OpenDNS, also giving me the option for my system resolver to give NXDOMAIN for any names on a local blacklist. It was remarkably easy to setup, just install the package. $ cat /etc/dnscrypt-proxy/blacklist fbcdn.net facebook.com google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com
- kqr 9y agoGood suggestion. I sandwhich Dnsmasq between applications and dnscrypt-proxy[1] because the opennic anycast servers were too slow otherwise. [1]: https://two-wrongs.com/secure-dns-on-a-laptop-with-debian.html https://two-wrongs.com/secure-dns-on-a-laptop-with-debian.ht...