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I have "pi-holed" my openbsd router using both ip blocklists for the firewall and dns blocklists for unbound that refresh automatically every night. All my cli
by tyfon 7y ago
I have "pi-holed" my openbsd router using both ip blocklists for the firewall and dns blocklists for unbound that refresh automatically every night.
All my clients run firefox with ublock origin and https everywhere. I ran no script for a while but it is quite painfull to manually allow scripts on a lot of pages so I think I have found a nice balance. I have also turned off wasm support in firefox.
If a site doesn't work with the above or shoves large nasty inline popups with "we value your privacy" etc and do not show a clear reject button I leave.
edit: I also pay subscription to most of the websites I use often that support payment and if they don't I email them and tell that I don't want ads and that I'd like to pay for it. Usually one can come to an arrangement.
- 0x445442 7y agoPiHole has been working well for our home as well.
- SanchoPanda 7y agoAre there non-obvious sites that will accept a pay subscription, or are you reaching custom arrangements?
- tyfon 7y agoOne site actually had a paid subscription without ads that was not advertised much, they emailed the link to me and I subscribed ($10 a year). A couple others I have been given donation links where I can set up what payment I think it's worth as a one off or recurring. Sometimes they have a patron without me finding it. I ad-block all of them anyway so even if they don't "turn off" the ads I am not seeing them.
- SanchoPanda 7y agoInteresting, thanks.
- decasteve 7y agoI have the exact same setup with OpenBSD (pcengines router) and Firefox + plug-ins but the inconvenience of using NoScript outweighs the JavaScript garbage that gets through without it.
- accrual 7y agoWould you be willing to share your auto-updating method? I created my own but I'm curious to see other methods.
- tyfon 7y agoI just picked the first guide google gave me [1] I'm too lazy. :) I did read through it though to make sure it didn't do anything bad, however there is a risk that whatever list you download might be malicious some day. https://www.geoghegan.ca/unbound-adblock.html https://www.geoghegan.ca/unbound-adblock.html
- 0xdeadb00f 7y agoAs someone not very knowledgeable with the issues associated with web assembly, may i ask why have you disabled it?
- tyfon 7y agoI don't trust it yet. That's all. I want to see how it behaves in the wild before I run it myself.