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I can not even thank the existence of this project enough! the simple improvement in internet speed is well worth it, even though i do too have a pihole runnin
by jhoelzel 4y ago
I can not even thank the existence of this project enough!
the simple improvement in internet speed is well worth it, even though i do too have a pihole running.
Sometimes when i visits friends i barely recognize sites that i use frequently.
- pkulak 4y agoI just run AdGuard Home network wide and have never seen a huge need to run a browser blocker as well. What are you getting out of using both?
- tedivm 4y agoUBO catches things for me that Adguard doesn't, so having both is pretty useful to me. UBO also blocks harmful elements inside of a page, not just page loads. I've used it to automatically remove the annoying paywalls that are just an element over the text I want to read.
- babypuncher 4y agoDNS-based ad blockers only block connections to domains known to serve ads. A browser-based blocker is able to block ads served by the same domain as the content you actually want, without blocking said content. They are also able to apply fixes to pages that break or have bad layouts when ads fail to load in.
- ycombinete 4y agoIs Adguard better than Pihole? I always thought that adguard were baddies, but maybe I’m conlflating them with another product…
- zwog 4y agoMaybe you are confusing AdGuard with AdBlockPlus? The latter[1] and the parent company Eyeo GmbH have some points of criticism. AdGuard is basically pi-hole, just with different pre-configured filter lists and especially child and parental control settings. IIRC, some services can also be blocked there directly, Instagram for example. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversies
- ycombinete 4y agoThis is exactly what happened! Thank you for clearing that up.
- throitallaway 4y agoA concrete example here is YouTube. I also run AdGuard Home, but that does nothing for YouTube ads. Firefox + uBlock kills them.
- humaniania 4y ago$12/mo to remove ads with YouTube Premium
- midoridensha 4y agoOr save $144/year and just install UBO in 10 seconds.
- MegaDeKay 4y agoI once sent someone a YouTube link and they were wondering why I sent them a link to an ad. It didn't even occur to me there would be an ad there because I was using FF and UBO, and obviously he wasn't. UBO just makes it so seamless that it is easy to forget.
- kgwxd 4y agoThe ability to leave the house for one :)
- asdff 4y agoI block all sorts of stuff thats not even ads. Stuff like "suggested for you" sidebars on websites I frequent I will just right click and block. All sorts of stuff. If I don't use it, no need to load it next time, so out it goes.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoYeah, I feel the same way. Let's take a moment to thank gorhill for his work. Thank you, gorhill.