• StaySquared@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I think I’ve made this comment before, but I really wish people would learn more about technologies like pihole. Get the ad once, get the hyperlink, add it to blacklist.

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      4 months ago

      I run a pihole as well, but it is a very rudimentary tool compared to browser based adblockers like uBlock origin. It can only block DNS queries, and can’t for example block ads if they are served from the same domain as the main site (i.e. youtube) or block specific elements on a page or block a specific script from running.

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        4 months ago

        can’t for example block ads if they are served from the same domain as the main site (i.e. youtube) or block specific elements on a page or block a specific script from running.

        Yeah that’s true.

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      4 months ago

      Until that ad also happens to be for a legitimate website you want to visit. I’d rather have a adblocker I can change right there in the website

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        4 months ago

        That’s a very rare case, and you can whitelist a domain using the pihole’s web interface. It may require extra two clicks, but I had to do that maybe twice in the last year.

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        4 months ago

        But it’s worth it… pretty much can block anything and everything across the entire network - on all endpoints.

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      4 months ago

      Ironically, I wish people including yourself knew more about shit like how PiHole/RaspPi simply leverage Unbound, which is not unique to only Pi software or Pi devices. You can do this same thing on any OS that has it installed.