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Curious about anyone's experience with adblock for OpenWRT. I use Pi-hole now, and it works great. The one feature that I use quite a lot is the ability to di
by creeble 7y ago
Curious about anyone's experience with adblock for OpenWRT.
I use Pi-hole now, and it works great. The one feature that I use quite a lot is the ability to disable it for a short period of time -- when I'm shopping for something, Google ads are sometimes actually useful!
I'd say I use that feature about once a month. That's the sum value of advertising for me.
- ronjouch 7y agoOpenWRT's adblock package has a "Suspend" button too. Also, domain whitelisting.
- teddyc 7y agoOpenWRT ships with dnsmasq. You just need to edit /etc/hosts to have all the unwanted domains resolve to 0.0.0.0 I like to get my host list from https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
- Abishek_Muthian 7y agoThat's interesting, Where do you see relevant Google Ads while shopping; is it on some product review blogs? Did you check the 'Shopping' tab of Google search?
- SmirkingRevenge 7y agoOne example I've run into... When you google search for something (like say a product or service that you want to purchase), you'll see a couple ads at the top of the results. Pi-hole usually prevents most ads from even displaying, but those always show up. If the ad was useful and you want to click through, it will generally block the request. I think the click through sends you to doubleclick or something. I've never disabled pi-hole in that situation, but there have been times when it was an annoyance because the ad was actually relevant.
- Abishek_Muthian 7y agoUnderstood, I think Google features those products in the shopping tab. But the results may vary depending upon the country you're in as I think they ran into some trouble for that in EU.
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