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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: 0.664s | 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. ryukoposting ◴[01 Nov 24 04:17 UTC] No.42014017[source]▶
Firefox and uBO, plus pi-hole on an old Celeron NUC alongside some other stuff (Samba, HA, etc).

Pi-Hole is worth it, I highly recommend it. You don't need a Pi, just grab a cheap used mini PC off eBay. It's been a total set-and-forget thing.

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2. nobody9999 ◴[01 Nov 24 09:08 UTC] No.42015207[source]▶
>You don't need a Pi, just grab a cheap used mini PC off eBay

I run pihole in a VM myself. And it works nicely. It doesn't use very much in the way of resources either. In fact, I've been thinking about moving to a docker/podman container.

I don't use "upstream" resolvers either. Rather, I use my own recursive resolver.

Those plus uBlockOrigin do the job quite nicely for me.

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3. ryukoposting ◴[01 Nov 24 19:21 UTC] No.42020564[source]▶
You certainly put in more effort than I did! I just grabbed the boilerplate Docker and systemd stuff off the web, told it "go" and added a few extra adlists. I also stuck nginx in front of it, but that was really just so that I could route different subdomains to HA, IPFS, and Pi-Hole.