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Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?

99 points laserstrahl | 1 comments | 28 Oct 24 12:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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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stonegray ◴[01 Nov 24 19:43 UTC] No.42020769[source]▶
Maybe not what you’re looking for, but I put adguard home on a VPS (although later switched to a “real” dns software prior to benchmarking) and is faster^1 than connecting directly to cloudflare from home.

[1] https://stonegray.ca/dns/#performance

Edit: for the curious, I use technetium as the server, nginx to proxy it (security stuff, prioritize traffic from my zerotier network, do DNS/DoT translation, etc) and docker/letsencrypt/watchtower/netdata for auto updating and status reporting, packaged as a single docker compose I can deploy easily.

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1. uncharted9 ◴[04 Nov 24 14:43 UTC] No.42041935[source]▶
This looks really interesting. I am not in North American region and hence this would be slow from my region. But nonetheless interesting project. Have you documented the entire setup journey on a blog or video?