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Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

99 points laserstrahl | 5 comments | 28 Oct 24 12:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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?

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dizhn ◴[29 Oct 24 09:15 UTC] No.41981250[source]▶
I haven't looked at pihole once after I discovered adguard home.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/dns/adguard-hom...

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uncharted9 ◴[30 Oct 24 14:08 UTC] No.41994996[source]▶
How do you reduce the latency of the upstream DNS resolvers? The closest Cloudflare servers give me 20-25ms DNS resolution times, but with Cloudflare as the upstream DNS in Adguard Home, I'm getting more around 80-110ms.
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1. cortesoft ◴[31 Oct 24 23:14 UTC] No.42012503[source]▶
What sort of workloads are you doing where 60ms extra time on your DNS lookups is an issue?
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2. 3eb7988a1663 ◴[01 Nov 24 04:05 UTC] No.42013968[source]▶
I naively assumed most OS + routers cache DNS queries so that your typical sites will not even require a lookup. Or is that a bad assumption?
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3. uncharted9 ◴[01 Nov 24 10:56 UTC] No.42015691[source]▶
I switched from Adguard Home to Blocky because I noticed how much faster page loads were on Blocky. I've configured it to cache any query I resolve more than once in a 24 hour window. This makes most of my page loads really, really fast.

Adguard also has the ability to cache. But I haven't seen it to significantly speed up my page loads. The default resolution itself is much slower on Adguard + Cloudflare DNS compared to Blocky + Cloudflare DNS. So this makes Adguard double whammy.

4. uncharted9 ◴[01 Nov 24 11:01 UTC] No.42015711[source]▶
Nothing interesting particularly, but cached + faster DNS resolution is usually perceptible in general web browsing.
5. kstrauser ◴[01 Nov 24 14:30 UTC] No.42017254[source]▶
DNS records commonly have cache lifetimes (“TTLs”) of a few minutes. It would be an error to cache those for much longer.