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>It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the sl
by Funes- 6y ago
>It's... So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness.
You can block ads just by editing your hosts file. There's no need to depend on any browser's particular functionality in order to get rid of them. Nor on extra hardware (Pi-hole), for that matter. I have a cron job download a prefilled copy from a popular github repository [1] daily.
[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
- dleslie 6y agoThat doesn't scrub all advertisements without also going full-nuclear on certain social media sites and video services.
- pythux 6y agoBlocking by hostnames is a big part of adblocking, but if you want to really block all ads and also not break the Web, you need an in-browser tech to do things like element hiding, scriptlet injections, etc. Which cannot be done via host files.
- rangoon626 6y agoThe other thing is that hosts file records appear to not hold in Firefox by default because of the https everywhere and the secure dns features they added. Drives me bonkers sometimes when I forget to turn off
- arduinomancer 6y agoThat doesn't work if the website serves the ads from the same domain as the content. For example YouTube ads.
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- GoblinSlayer 6y ago0.0.0.0 youtube.com
- michaelmrose 6y agoHow do you selectively turn off this functionality for websites that don't work with such blocking?
- mp3geek 6y agoBlocking ads via hosts file is a very basic method, delivers no flexibility to get around js/css, whitelisting sites. Acceptable only in a Pi-hole environment, but not in a stand alone browser.