• Tikiporch@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        You don’t need uBlock if you have a pihole properly configured, but you still need a pihole even if you have uBlock properly configured. uBlock is a half measure. An incomplete solution, but better than nothing.

  • lightnegative@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t bother with PiHole because DNS-based ad blocking quite frankly sucks and is only getting worse.

    I’m still waiting for someone like AdGuard to release a MITM proxy that does something similar to uBlock Origin and strips ads directly from the network traffic

    But until then, browser extensions are good enough for most usecases (Firefox user so the adblocking ones work on mobile as well)

  • Subverb@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I wish I could pi-hole.

    I use NextDNS and it’s good for my devices, but Google sponsored links won’t work with it. Sometimes I have to turn it off temporarily to get something done.

    Also, my wife works from home in social media. I can’t really block ads network-wide because she needs to see them.

    😕

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      6 months ago

      Working should really happen on a separate network though, business has no business being conducted on a private one.

  • chandz05@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    My Raspberry Pi SD card finally died after almost 10 years, and I was hosting Pi-Hole on it. After a year of Pi-Hole I didn’t realize how many things had freaken ads. They pop up everywhere! I really need to get a new SD card :(