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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: 0.001s | 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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marssaxman ◴[28 Oct 24 16:54 UTC] No.41973348[source]▶
Firefox + uBlock Origin works well for me! It's all I use.
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rsyring ◴[31 Oct 24 23:24 UTC] No.42012566[source]▶
Ditto except NextDNS as default on my network for DNS blocking.

I can switch to cloudflare DNS in Firefox to circumvent DNS routing which is occasionally necessary, mostly to make email links work.

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newscracker ◴[01 Nov 24 03:23 UTC] No.42013759[source]▶
NextDNS does not work many a times. I prefer the iOS app so that it’s easy to disable when needed, but the app has not been updated for a few years. Many a times the test page at test.nextdns.io will show as unconfigured and sometimes it will show as passing the test.

On Apple TV, I have the NextDNS profile installed, but it still doesn’t work.

Most of the community forum posts on NextDNS don’t get any answers. I’m sure the DNS servers exist, but the clients and the configuration options have not been supported by the creators.

I wouldn’t recommend NextDNS to anyone because of this apathy by its creators.

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AStonesThrow ◴[01 Nov 24 10:34 UTC] No.42015596[source]▶
NextDNS was working a treat for me, and it was only through NextDNS's meticulous logging that I immediately discovered that my consumer grade router was hopelessly compromised: joined a botnet, trafficking porn, IDK.

So I threw the router out the window, and signed up to rent CPE from my ISP; edge router security is now 100% their responsibility!

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1. cyberpunk ◴[01 Nov 24 16:19 UTC] No.42018524[source]▶
What’s a CPE?
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2. pmw ◴[01 Nov 24 17:18 UTC] No.42019277[source]▶
It's an networking term to distinguish between ISP-owned and customer-owned equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer-premises_equipment
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3. jdsnape ◴[01 Nov 24 23:33 UTC] No.42022636[source]▶
minor nitpick, but it's not ownership so much as location. Sometimes the ISP will own the equipment, but it will be located on the customer premises rather than the ISP premises. It's an important distinction as you can't just rock up and do stuff to it.