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Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

99 points laserstrahl | 2 comments | 28 Oct 24 12:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.479s | source

Hi, Just installed OpenWRT. Which solutions for ad blocking and other trackers would you recommend? Pi-Hole is not a option, since I don't have one laying around.

So anything else I can try which will work out of the box? For links and guides I'd be happy. PS: I got dual antennas what would come into your mind to do with it?

1. superkuh ◴[31 Oct 24 23:08 UTC] No.42012460[source]▶
Noscript temporary whitelist only combined with uBlock origin and sponsorblock. A CSS toggle button is important too to be able to read text when the page doesn't display correctly. As well as a "superstop" button to (near) completely end all JS execution in a tab after loading.

After 15 years of using NoScript this way I have developed a sixth sense for the minimal set of individual hostnames/ips need to be JS allowed on a typical site. I'm quite fast at it. But wix.com hosted sites and others like it that have one JS domain required to load another and so on serially 5x deep I just close rather than refreshing the page 5 times.

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2. Linux-Fan ◴[01 Nov 24 20:18 UTC] No.42021124[source]▶
I use Firefox + uMatrix to achieve a similar setup.

One advantage of using only a script blocker in favor of a proper ad blocker is that I don't shut off reasonable ads but only the ones that do shady stuff with a lot of computation and tracking on the client PC.

uMatrix has the advantage that it additionally blocks cookies by default, making the tracking even harder.