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I think that's why the site is "free".
For a deeper explanation, research "Capitalism".
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The amount of ads on this site is out of control and ridiculous.
I run all traffic on my home network through a custom DNS service that blocks all trackers, ads, malicious sites etc. It does an amazing job. It makes browsing this site bearable.
I run all traffic on my home network through a custom DNS service that blocks all trackers, ads, malicious sites etc. It does an amazing job. It makes browsing this site bearable.
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I use NextDNS. https://nextdns.io/
It’s like $1.99 a month. I’d pay 10 times that for it.
It’s not like a pop up blocker, it straight up blocks whole domains (sites) that are deemed malicious, spammy, etc.
There are a 100 ways to make it work. One of the absolute easiest on a mobile device is to just simply use their app on that device. I take it a step further and run it on my home router so ALLLL of my home traffic filters through it. I also run the app on my phone which only runs when I’m not on my home network. It’s automatic.
You can also setup specific safe sites. Like for some reason it will sometimes block things on the hellofresh Website, but I went ahead and added that domain to the safe list so nothing ever gets blocked from there.
When you first set it up, you have to select your filter “lists”. These are always maintained and added to as new bad sites come online.
Let me know if you have any other questions about it
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DK4
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Yeah no problem. If you do go through with it, let me know. I have some advice on how to set it up.
The other thing to be aware of is on certain sites, like this one, the ads are completely blocked but yet the space they take up is still there. So there will be big blank gaps and whatnot where the ad would be. Still much better than looking at the ad, but something to be aware of. Not all sites do that.
Here is an example.
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I use PiHole running on a Raspberry Pi to block advertising URLs at the DNS level. This doesn't cost anything to set up outside of the Raspberry Pi itself and your time to set it up. There is more info at https://pi-hole.net/ . All open source. This works like a champ on all devices on our home network, though if you are away and switch to another network or use cell data then you'll see ads again. Perhaps that wouldn't happen with something like nextDNS.
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Haha truth. The advertisements it blocks are just a fraction of the malicious crap that goes on behind the scenes on any casual normal home network. In fact the advertisements are probably the most harmless.
I run a surveillance server, a media server, work from home, have a teenager that is a bigtime PC gamer, and have on average at least 50 devices on my network at any one given time. I run Qotom Firewall device with an Intel Core I3 with 8GB of RAM on OPNSense and 2 AP’s on 1Gb fiber optic service at my house.
You should see my NextDNS logs
NextDNS is good stuff and good people too.
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Indeed. Heh, I work for Cisco, and just got lazy over time... Some day, I'll use my employee discount and go for a full Meraki setup. More than I need, but it is good to nerd-out at times.
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