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    [–] chandz05@lemmy.world 84 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    My Raspberry Pi SD card finally died after almost 10 years, and I was hosting Pi-Hole on it. After a year of Pi-Hole I didn't realize how many things had freaken ads. They pop up everywhere! I really need to get a new SD card :(

    [–] KrapKake@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Then install log2ram to avoid constant writes to SD card. Or install DietPi instead of the stock OS, its installed automatically. Honestly DietPi just rocks for SBCs in general, good text UI and utilities.

    [–] chandz05@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Is dietPi the same as PiOS lite? I use PiOS lite with no GUI etc

    [–] KrapKake@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Probably not, think of it as a different distro. It is Debian based, and supports many different SBCs and not just the RPi. https://dietpi.com/

    [–] chandz05@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

    That actually looks pretty cool. +1 for sticking with Debian too. I will give it a shot!

    [–] DannyMac@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

    Yes! I kept going through SD cards and DietPi was suggested... It's been rocking for years now.

    [–] swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    10 years is a pretty good run for an SD card.. was it an endurance SD? That’s what I’m running. Fried a non-endurance one in under a year, replaced it with an endurance and reduced log writing frequency with some config change and have been cruising for 3-4 years so far.

    [–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

    Endurance cards are so worth it. They’re what I use in my Pi units and our dash cams. I just whish I hadn’t fried so many normal cards before coming around.

    [–] chandz05@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

    Well I should clarify. I had retroPi on it for a number of years, but hardly used it. I finally repurposed it over the last year for Pi-Hole and Pi.Alert, so yeah I think this last year completely destroyed my SD card

    [–] Sirico@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Go sata m.2 next if you can

    [–] chandz05@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

    That is an absolutely great idea!

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    [–] crsu@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    When I want an ad gone, I reach for brand name soda. Brand name soda, it means you're smart.

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    [–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Not if it is my ad, Golden Globe nominated movie, Barbie, is now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.

    Nowhere is safe. No where.

    [–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 33 points 10 months ago (4 children)
    [–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    That only stops browser activity? What about windows, discord, nvidia, ... ? :p
    Those are all blocked on my pihole ( i run both pihole and ublock btw )

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I guess I just don't trust Windows discord and Nvidia. I don't think DNS filtering will protect you if they control the computer

    [–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Or android, ios, consoles, ... :p
    These are all devices pihole can help with that ublock cant. A combination of the 2 is key

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    [–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Works great when you have a device that can use it.

    [–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    So all PCs, Macs, tablets, and smartphones then.

    [–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    Most mobile browsers can’t. Every Chromium browser is soon getting the gimped Lite version too.

    So it’s just Firefox on not iOS.

    [–] Sebbe@lemmy.sebbem.se 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Seems like a good idea to stay away from those browsers, then.

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    [–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I don't bother with PiHole because DNS-based ad blocking quite frankly sucks and is only getting worse.

    I'm still waiting for someone like AdGuard to release a MITM proxy that does something similar to uBlock Origin and strips ads directly from the network traffic

    But until then, browser extensions are good enough for most usecases (Firefox user so the adblocking ones work on mobile as well)

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    [–] Subverb@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    I wish I could pi-hole.

    I use NextDNS and it's good for my devices, but Google sponsored links won't work with it. Sometimes I have to turn it off temporarily to get something done.

    Also, my wife works from home in social media. I can't really block ads network-wide because she needs to see them.

    😕

    [–] SomeKindaName@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

    You can setup separate vlans, or even separate networks for allowing the ads if you need.

    [–] thorcik@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    You can - my wife works with ads as well.

    What I ended up doing - I set her laptop with a static IP and added TCP and UDP routes for port 53 (the one used for DNS queries) to 8.8.8.8 - no complaints since ;) I use a cheap Mikrotik router between my ISP one and the actual network (well, a NAS and a Unifi AP, the rest is wireless) so doing it was easy ;)

    [–] SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

    Both of your wives are plants by the marketing firm to make sure your attempts to remove all ads are stymied. You'll have to kill her. I'm sorry.

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    [–] pewpew@feddit.it 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Does YouTube trigger his anti-adBlock with a piHole?

    [–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

    YouTube ads come from the same server as the content so you can’t isolate them with pihole

    [–] Ashiette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 10 months ago

    No because pi-hole does not block YT ads

    [–] Breakyfix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago

    uBlock Origin on Firefox still works great if you keep the filters up to date every once in a while c:

    [–] Rooki@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Tell me, what is your most reliable ad list source?

    [–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago

    Personally I use Stevenblack's default one, in combination with a personal one that i've curated since 2019. Previously I used to use MVPS, however that list's included in the SB default.

    Stuff that tends to slip through the cracks with a lot of the common lists includes things like admiral 🤬, user session recorders, and app monitoring platforms like sentryio (useful for development, but I didn't consent my activity being recorded). There's also Bauer Media Group garbage that I've resorted to creating firewall packet inspection rules for, because they're using a subdomain technique that's even worse than Admiral's autogenerated domains - at least with those you can use DNS analysis tools like dnsdumpster to uncover the rest of autogenerated domains in that batch

    [–] Cihta@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I've used Pihole for so long.. I bought the original pi as a curiosity but Pihole was best use of it.

    Here is the problem though, which i assume applies to all adblockers: everything is now "sponsored links". Google, Amazon, etc. They are of course blocked which is getting really frustrating.

    So what do we do now? Is there a way to just send fake telemetry? Saw VLANs mentioned. Is that the way? I'm getting older and life gets busier and it's harder for me to keep up on this.

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Privacy Badger, if you want to try to reduce your tracking data.

    Privacy Possum, if you want to send bullshit tracking data to cost companies money.

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    [–] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

    I get around it by using an alternative search engine such as searxng.

    [–] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 8 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    My block ads Magisk module:

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    [–] feecoomeeq@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    And there's also AdBlock plugin in OpenWRT

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    [–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    You run into issues where the website detects what you're doing and blocks your access? It happens if I use ad blocking through my vpn.

    [–] vpklotar@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

    It's happens sometimes but I must say, not very often. I could probably count on one hand how many times that have happened through my many years of using pihole.

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    [–] havokdj@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I've wanted to do this for some time, but everyone tells me there's no way to make it work without constantly updating the blacklist. Is it really such a hassle?

    [–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

    I forget about mine until I need to log into it to allow/block something, then I run my updates if I remember to think about it.

    So like once every few months at best. Usually 2x/yr. Still works fine.

    [–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

    The blocklist automatically updates as long as you’re using maintained sources. It’s pretty easy tbh.

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