About 2 years ago, I started running Pi-hole as a DNS resolver and ad-blocker. Then last year, I ditched it. After seeing a recent post by Troy Hunt, though, I thought it might be worth revisiting..but I needed a better way to control how it worked. Enter {{OpenVPN}} – a service I already run on …
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pi-hole revisited
Back in November, I was really up on Pi-hole. But after several more months of running it … I am far less psyched than I had been. I’m sure part of that is having gotten better internet services at my house – so the impact of ads is less noticeable. But a major part of …
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more ad blocking extensions
The list of ad blocking extensions I have installed has grown. Add to the previous two these two: Adguard uBlock
on ads
My colleague Sheila wrote a great, short piece on LinkedIn about ads recently. And this is what I commented: I held off for years in installing ad blockers/reducers. But I have finally had to cave – been running Flash in “ask-only” mode for months now, and just added a couple blocker/reducer extensions to Chrome recently …
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