What adblocker are you using?

#41

I personally use two ad blockers, Ad Block Plus, and Windscribe VPN Ad blocker, to completely crush ads.

#42

i just use addblock plus it does the job

#43

You better not be seeing any ads after using 2 adblockers

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#44

On sites like SoundCloud, i don’t see ads, but i still hear them.

#45

Try maybe using a different ad blocker

#46

That is why I have two adblockers

#47

For chrome I use AdBlockPlus as well. It does what I need.

#48

Have you guys heard of Firewalla … a little bundle that can do a lot of things plus the adblocking :smiley:

This can be built via Raspberry Pi, but a lot of work and more time… which is sort of running short on…

Planning to go for it (planning for Red, Blue & Gold are on higher side of $$$$), anyone here has it / any feedback?

Hope some day Anker can create this kind of a device

#49

firewalls :
One without any knowledge about ports etc, should handle that VERY careful!y
You can do a lot there, but …

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#50

absolutely… very true

#51

I make sure to read the user’s manual.

#52

There are many firewall programs around.
You need really to know what you’re blocking!

#53

I enable the console and logs if I need to troubleshoot, and I learn by just tweaking somethings.

#54

You should use a program watching activities at your computer’s ports first.
LINUX : “nmap” very powerful program!

#55

I watch them carefully.

#56

I’m using ublock origin at the browser level in conjunction with pihole running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W for network wide blocking.

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This is an interesting graphic.
Shows how the browsers is blocking tracking scripts.

#58

This may have been the case for a while, but I just now noticed it.

I sometimes open possibly dodgy websites (ones I think are just full of ads or phishing) using incognito mode so not give it cookies or let it leave cookies.

I noticed you can make your adblock now work incognito so you can not only not arrive or leave with cookies but also block the ads too. Nice feature.

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So in total on my full laptop with Chrome browser I’m using:

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(on Android I use vanced.app to get the same feature)

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#59

I use ublock for firefox and chrome, not a fan of edge maybe because I am getting old and it is new. I usually run a VPN (Windscribe) to block most ads and ublock to block the java junk.

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#60

I don’t trust these VPN services… these may collect your data, try not to use banking / email / sensitive stuff while connected to VPN :nerd_face:

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