I have used both pihole and currently pfblockerng with pfsense for several years now and they are both great. On occasion if I am roaming and forget to activate my wireguard VPN to route traffic through my home network, the normal news websites I use are almost unrecognisable with their horrific background add images and inline ads. After one nauseating incident when I was confronted with a particularly visual add for earwax removal whilst eating breakfast, I decided to discard all browser based Adblock solutions and use a network based blocker instead, and have never looked back. The only caveat with pfblockerNG is that “sponsored” google search engine listings are also blocked, which is OK because I always ignore these anyway.
Posts by Zincwombat
3 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Sep 2021
Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you
Ad blockers struggle under Chrome's new rules
Friday 9th September 2022 10:44 GMT
What am I missing here?
I use safari, chrome and brave and never see an add.
The solution is simple, get yourself a pihole (I have a couple in a failover configuration) and I also use a pfsense router running “pfblocker” as well as intrusion detection software.
When I use other peoples browsers or forget to use my wireguard VPN while travelling, I am continually astounded by the nauseating crap adds people have to put up with.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
