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SeattleVet

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7. Adblock Plus and a Pi-Hole.

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Sat May 2, 2020, 03:59 PM

May 2020

The Pi-Hole is a Raspberry Pi that acts as your primary DNS lookup for everything on your network, and it just drops known ad sites from downloading.

I used a super-cheap Pi Zero and the setup was very fast and easy. Here's all the background and info for it:

https://pi-hole.net

From looking at my logs, it appears that almost 45% of our network queries were blocked from downloading over the past 24 hours. This makes web pages load MUCH faster (they aren't downloading all of the ads with the page content).

Very customizable, too, to allow or reject specific ads/sites.

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How do I block ads? The multiply on all pages - not on DU, though [View all] question everything May 2020 OP

adblock and adblock plus here , not totaly efective but helps . have no adblocker on another AllaN01Bear May 2020 #1

They are browser add-ons aka extensions ... mr_lebowski May 2020 #2

Security problem? question everything May 2020 #9

I have uBlock on my PCs and Chromebook DonaldsRump May 2020 #3

I use Ghostery. Works pretty good. overleft May 2020 #4

Where do I find it? Thanks question everything May 2020 #8

I use the Brave browser Lulu KC May 2020 #5

ublock and ghostery here. yonder May 2020 #6

Adblock Plus and a Pi-Hole. SeattleVet May 2020 #7

use the browser called Epic from epic browser dot com Tetrachloride May 2020 #10

+1 for Pi-Hole CloudWatcher May 2020 #11

When I run into one of those (rare) sites that won't load... SeattleVet May 2020 #12

Timed disable! CloudWatcher May 2020 #13

UBlock Origin SmartVoter22 Jul 2020 #14

Thanks. After the suggestions here and in the Apple community support I got them question everything Jul 2020 #15