privaxy

I thought this was a cool idea, so I looked around for existing implementations and found https://github.com/barre/privaxy Been a while since the last commit, so I'm not sure if it's maintained, but I might try adding it (or something similar) to my pihole.

In my understanding, content blocking proxy should still work. For example, - https://github.com/barre/privaxy - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/urlfilter

Content blocking proxy should still work. For example, - https://github.com/barre/privaxy - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/urlfilter

https://github.com/epitron/mitm-adblock or https://github.com/barre/privaxy

The only reason stuff like PiHole / AdGuard DNS and many others work is because the service vendors have not bothered unifying ALL the network requests their service needs under a single domain. The one and only reason we can use those privacy-enhancing solutions is because the vendors are sloppy. The moment your favorite app starts using only `your-fav-app.com` domain for everything, ads and sending out your private info included, you are toast and you'll need a MITM proxy or any other on-device-network-payload-inspector-after-decryption-has-taken-place to save yourself. (So maybe Adguard's client app, I presume? But haven't ever tried.) Maybe Privaxy[0] will help -- haven't tried it yet and I got no time and energy for it for the moment, sadly, but DNS-level blocking in particular is just waiting for a few more resourceful vendors to do

(With thanks to your grandchild) https://github.com/barre/privaxy seems definitely worth a look - thanks!

Didn't help that they spelled the name incorrectly, but I found it :D https://github.com/barre/privaxy

This reminds me of a now-dockerized Privaxy, which is a UBlock-origin blocklist compatible MITM proxy. It’s crazy to see how many ads and tracking scripts are on smart products, especially my TV where so far in my testing it’s over 40% unnecessary traffic. Its been pretty fun to try and strip out ads on my smart-tv apps. https://github.com/deetungsten/webui-privaxy is the dockerized fork of https://github.com/Barre/privaxy

Ad blockers currently work on Android devices[1][2][3][4], preferably by gaining root on the device and using a de-Googled Android, using F-Droid[1] and/or manually installing packages with FFUpdater[1]. If you really have to use Apple devices and other post-general-purpose-computing locked down devices (e.g. televisions), you could try self-hosting privaxy[5][6] (or similar) which performs MITM manipulation of web traffic to remove ads, including via JS or CSS injection. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/ [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi... [3] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android [4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin... [5] https://github.com/Barre/privaxy [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31432848

MITM for HTTPS means you'll need to set up each machine with an additional cert. And for this project, you need to configure each machine to funnel through the proxy anyways. https://github.com/Barre/privaxy#local-system-configuration Personally, I use NextDNS which allows you to block categories, IPs, and use blocklists. It's set up on the network level, and I have two separate NextDNS "networks" configured. One for the entire network, one for "privileged" users/devices.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/Barre/privaxy It’s a proxy that does just this.

Ublock make it that the links are not even displayed. You may be interested in https://github.com/Barre/privaxy