• chandz05@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    My Raspberry Pi SD card finally died after almost 10 years, and I was hosting Pi-Hole on it. After a year of Pi-Hole I didn’t realize how many things had freaken ads. They pop up everywhere! I really need to get a new SD card :(

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      That only stops browser activity? What about windows, discord, nvidia, … ? :p
      Those are all blocked on my pihole ( i run both pihole and ublock btw )

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        I guess I just don’t trust Windows discord and Nvidia. I don’t think DNS filtering will protect you if they control the computer

      • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 years ago

        I’m genuinely curious, to what are you referring when mentioning Windows, Discord, Nvidia, etc.? I know Windows is an entirely separate conversation but do Discord and Nvidia serve ads now and I’m just not seeing it because of my Pihole?

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Not if it is my ad, Golden Globe nominated movie, Barbie, is now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.

    Nowhere is safe. No where.

  • lightnegative@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I don’t bother with PiHole because DNS-based ad blocking quite frankly sucks and is only getting worse.

    I’m still waiting for someone like AdGuard to release a MITM proxy that does something similar to uBlock Origin and strips ads directly from the network traffic

    But until then, browser extensions are good enough for most usecases (Firefox user so the adblocking ones work on mobile as well)