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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) (www.spacebar.news)

submitted 3 months ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I think I've made this comment before, but I really wish people would learn more about technologies like pihole. Get the ad once, get the hyperlink, add it to blacklist.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

Too much effort for pretty much everything that normal AdBlock already did

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ironically, I wish people including yourself knew more about shit like how PiHole/RaspPi simply leverage Unbound, which is not unique to only Pi software or Pi devices. You can do this same thing on any OS that has it installed.

[–] Netrunner@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Adblock is more than just a DNS sink. I have both of those, but still use ublock origin.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does it have a GUI or is it CLI only?

[–] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

GUI and cli, however, has no where near the options pihole or adguardhome have; my limited experience is with it in opnsense, so by far isn't complete but I disable it and forward everything to adguardhome.

What it can do in opnsense (for an example of what can be done with it, blocklist near bottom): https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/unbound.html

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 3 months ago

Does Unbound work across the entire network on devices you can't install it to directly, the way a pihole does?

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago

I run a pihole as well, but it is a very rudimentary tool compared to browser based adblockers like uBlock origin. It can only block DNS queries, and can't for example block ads if they are served from the same domain as the main site (i.e. youtube) or block specific elements on a page or block a specific script from running.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

Until that ad also happens to be for a legitimate website you want to visit. I'd rather have a adblocker I can change right there in the website