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Setup a Pi-Hole and don't depend on browser-level but network-level ad blocking.

ycombonator 7y ago
+1 ! Loving the pihole setup myself. Optimized the dnsmasq & raspbian network a little bit. I have 248,000 hosts on block list. Can you share your block lists if you can ?
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  What optimisations, please? Not OP, but FWIW I'm just using standard lists (you asked, I'm not sure what use it is): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h... https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainbl... https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking... https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
  - ycombonator 7y ago
    Sorry just catching up. Just the regular Linux network sysctl optimizations. Not all of them may apply to Raspbian or the hardware you are running it on.
vbezhenar 7y ago
What's the advantage of Pi-Hole over ubound?
FabHK 7y ago
Couldn't one just use a hosts file, eg with Gas Mask? https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask (And btw, uBlock origin can do more than block certain IPs)
- FroshKiller 7y ago
  Hosts files need to be set up per device, and some devices don't implement hosts files.
ddebernardy 7y ago
That's all great, but not particularly useful when you need to use your laptop on a network you don't control.
- FroshKiller 7y ago
  I use a Pi-hole on my home network, and on other networks, I use a VPN home and manually specify the Pi-hole as my DNS server.
zamadatix 7y ago
Note DNS ad blocking is a very limited subset of what browser-level blockers support. Better than nothing but certainly not a replacement.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
  With the changes coming to Chrome, is there a most realistic option than network-level blocking?
  - cowgoesmoo 7y ago
    Firefox?

+1 ! Loving the pihole setup myself. Optimized the dnsmasq & raspbian network a little bit. I have 248,000 hosts on block list. Can you share your block lists if you can ?

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
What optimisations, please? Not OP, but FWIW I'm just using standard lists (you asked, I'm not sure what use it is): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h... https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainbl... https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking... https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
- ycombonator 7y ago
  Sorry just catching up. Just the regular Linux network sysctl optimizations. Not all of them may apply to Raspbian or the hardware you are running it on.

vbezhenar 7y ago

What's the advantage of Pi-Hole over ubound?

FabHK 7y ago

Couldn't one just use a hosts file, eg with Gas Mask? https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask https://github.com/2ndalpha/gasmask (And btw, uBlock origin can do more than block certain IPs)

FroshKiller 7y ago
Hosts files need to be set up per device, and some devices don't implement hosts files.

ddebernardy 7y ago

That's all great, but not particularly useful when you need to use your laptop on a network you don't control.

FroshKiller 7y ago
I use a Pi-hole on my home network, and on other networks, I use a VPN home and manually specify the Pi-hole as my DNS server.

zamadatix 7y ago

Note DNS ad blocking is a very limited subset of what browser-level blockers support. Better than nothing but certainly not a replacement.

JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
With the changes coming to Chrome, is there a most realistic option than network-level blocking?
- cowgoesmoo 7y ago
  Firefox?