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Apologies, it wasn't down because of HN! I can't edit the original post now, but it was just my computer blocking your domain at the hosts level via https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts I should have realised, but it's the first time using that hosts list has ever stopped a website I've wanted to go to from loading, so I didn't think of it.

> the algorithmic rejection of my reality on these platforms takes a pretty consistent toll That sucks. :/ https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ and https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/10bba14590738c445c...

This is one of many reasons I do not feel the least bit bad about having a Pi-Hole [1] on my network to block ads and trackers [2]. The companies behind this are predatory. The advertisement and analytic platforms they use are complicit. I have an obligation to shield my family from their manipulative and malicious intentions. The option to just avoid these types of apps/websites is a farce. The platforms have infiltrated our lives at every level - analytics are always being collected. My own ISP has the right to spy on me and my family and sell our activities to be used against us in the form of advertisements. [1] https://pi-hole.net [2] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

For anyone not interested in setting up pi-hole, having a blacklist host file is just as effective for your local machine [0]. I have that full list set as my /etc/hosts file on a Streisand server [1] and run all my devices through that with IPSEC VPN. It's a little more flexible than pi-hole since you can use your mobile devices over LTE with it. [0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts [1] https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

I use AdBlock https://www.adblockios.com on iOS which runs a local DNS server that can blackhole domains. It doesn't work well on very large host files so I gave up trying to import https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts, but it does work well for smaller lists.

There's also Steven Black's host file: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

As far as I know, the pi-hole maintainers do not maintain any of the default block lists. I maintain a list [1] that is then feed into the popular host list by Steven Black [2] - which is a default list. I definitely do not want to break things for people and I'm happy to remove any reasonable domains from the list. I wouldn't consider google analytics a reasonable one to remove - but you get the idea. I hate to hear you had a bad experience of it. If my list had the breaking domains for you, I would of loved to have a ticket opened where we could discuss it. Sometimes it isn't clear cut between ads & tracking and useful services. [1] https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts [2] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

I use a /etc/hosts-based (https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts) approach to add blocking across my machines, but I have found some sites (fansided.com) comes to mind, which detect that I'm blocking and won't let me read them. How easy is it to get around this with the pi-hole?

this kills my caching, but I'd love to integrate this in dnsmasq. right now I'm running a patched dnsmasq¹ that can handle blocking urls based on regex (e.g. kill anything with unicode in addition to whatever I have in my SteveBlack's /etc/hosts blocklist²). So having noise generation in dnsmasq which is ignored by caching would be an ideal solution for me. __ ¹https://github.com/lixingcong/dnsmasq-regex ²https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts and you don't need a device.

I think you might have missed the point of my comment. If you block AMP scripts, you will definitely encounter broken sites. The point I was trying to make are that those broken sites are mostly junk anyways. Overloaded with ads, tracking, and other manipulative content geared at turning me into the product. I haven't missed those sites any. However, I recognize that I'm not the average user, which is why these blocks are in my aggressive list. I initially put the blocks into my regular block list which is then consumed by Steven Black's hosts [1]. Very quickly a ticket was opened to whitelist AMP [2]. Funny enough, the user requesting that AMP be white listed posted screen shots of broken advertisements disguised as 'news' articles. To make everyone happy I moved it to my aggressive list which isn't included in Steven's project. Anyways,

I've been using Wireguard on both my laptop and my Android phone for about two months. I've been using the wg-quick systemd units, and everything has worked amazingly well. The only downside I've notice is slightly increased battery consumption on my phone, but that's to be expected (it uses approximately 5% of the battery per day). I use dnsmasq to resolve DNS queries on the server side. Dnsmasq's configuration file includes entries to block connections to ad networks, based on Steven Black's host file [0]. It's a great to achieve ad blocking on Android, since Google has banned ad blockers from the Play Store. Jason Donenfeld, Wireguard's author, has a Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/zx2c4 [0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

A good solution I've found for ad blocking is using the following hosts file: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Which sinkholes every known ad/malicious domain. It's been pretty useful, and it hasn't broken nothing important yet.

A Pi-hole is the only real solution for this as far as I can tell if you still want to use apps on your TV like Netflix. I use a Pi-hole as well with several block list sources, my favorite being Steven Black's hosts: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts