Posted on 02/15/2021 3:42:19 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
right after the 2nd acquittal of the President, my pi-hole started blocking freerepublic as well as some links on other right wing sites (such as ben shapiro's site.) I whitelisted it but just a heads up to those with pi-holes!
If you want a list of my adlists, pm me.
I’m straight, so my ‘Pi-hole’ only serves one purpose.
I have had none of these problems. Update everything. I suspect one of the old lists has gone rogue. See my post about versions and gravity update at the top of this thread.
Just tested by rebooting everything, flushing all dns cache, updating gravity, and no issues at all. One of the old ad lists has a libtard with severe TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) is all I can see it being.
Isn’t this functionally similar to maintaining your own hosts file in windows?
I run dnsmasq and https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=dnsmasq
huh? I guess I’m just lucky! With the exception of donation plugs at the top of each thread I never get ads on FRepublic!! badum! 8^O
I’d not heard of Pi-hole before. It would be interesting if it could be installed as a servive under DD-WRT
Simpletons like me just use an ad blocker, whether as an addon/extension or a browser with built in ad blocking. Ublock origin and yesScript take care of most things.
It is somewhat similar in the effect, but you would need a host file with something like 70k hosts.
There are add blocking services you can add to OpenWRT (Avoid DD-WRT for no good reason other than OpenWRT is fully open)
Dont think I have seen Pi for it though.
See https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3934611/posts?page=44#44
for a list.
A-holes in the White House and pi-holes on the brink.
Agreed, they do a good job but not for phones, tablets and embedded devices. For blocking youtube ads they are a must as the pihole way has no way of effectively blocking them.
Setting up a pihole is pretty easy. You don’t have to have stayed in a Holiday Inn the night before. If you can install and extension and plug in an Ethernet cable you have all the skills required.
Lots of people hosting DNS servers could be useful in that eventual day and time de-platforming is not enough and they need to censor sites that go around silicon valley, and you wont be able to trust the master DNS records, but the trick is to let everyone get access to them rather than those your ISP points to.
“The DNS server blackholes (says they dont exist) those domains.”
The hosts making money off of the advertisements must be devising ways around the currently easy way of blocking most of the ads.
A pond would be good for you!
It is a constant war. They try and be sneaky, and the list maintainers figure out how to block them. It is why maintaining your own list is futile. Lots of work at the ad end to get past blocking and lots of work on our end countering their sneaky sneaks.
Oh, and the very architecture of the net means they either have to have a domain name (blockable) or a fixed ip (also blockable)
No way around it with how tcp/ip and DNS work not unless you have the ads embedded in your app and that is not how ads get paid for so even that workaround is futile for the ad end.
Some on the ad end have seemingly random changing domains where it is an algorithm, but even those get figured out how to block and get blocked pretty quickly.
Re: both replies about blocking ads:
Seems like a big deal to me if advertisers can’t use the internet to broadcast their ads. Perhaps the ads will need to be copied into the “content” web pages as they reside in the server.
WTH is a pi-hole?
Wish I could find out which list it is and publicize it.
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