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Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

99 points laserstrahl | 3 comments | 28 Oct 24 12:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | 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. sigio ◴[31 Oct 24 23:23 UTC] No.42012552[source]▶
If you run adguard home with long blocklists on a consumer-level router, this will cause big delays, simply because the blocklists are large and eat all available memory and lots of processing on any dns request.

I've kept de blocklists in adguard home small, and then it works fine, but if I add hundreds of thousands of blocked domains, it gets painfully slow on my Edgerouter X running OpenWRT

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2. uncharted9 ◴[01 Nov 24 10:58 UTC] No.42015698[source]▶
I'm using same set of Blocklists (800k-1M rulesets) in my comparison between Adguard and Blocky with same upstream resolver.

I'm running them as system service on my laptop, and using my localhost as dns proxy.

3. tssva ◴[01 Nov 24 11:13 UTC] No.42015792[source]▶
The Edgerouter X had good specs for the time it was released but that was over 9 years ago at this point. I had to replace mine a few years ago because it didn't have the thruput for my 1Gbs internet connection.

Many modern consumer routers contain processors and memory which can easily handle Adguard Home. I have a GL.iNet MT-6000 with a MediaTek Filogic 830 processor which has 4 ARM A53 cores running at 2Ghz and offloads wifi and wired network packet processing from the cores. It also has 1GB of DDR4 memory. It has no problem handling Adguard home, my 1Gbs internet connection and gives me around 900Mbs of wirguard thruput.