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Ad Blocking is Cyber Security (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (24 children)

For additional content, you can accomplish ad blocking in a number of ways. The ones that immediately spring to mind:

browser extension: most modern browsers have some extension framework available. I've been using ublock origin for a number of years with reasonable results
VPN: some VPNs include ad blocking as a side benefit to their primary function. Nord doesn't seem to block ads on all mobile apps or is at least inconsistent in my experience
Network packet filter/PiHole: this has been on my to-do list for a while. Catches network traffic that looks like ads before it even reaches your device. Most involved and least portable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

A Pi-hole is easy to set up if you already have a Raspberry Pi and a router that supports changing the DNS (I had one that was rented from an ISP that didn't).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Love my pihole. Didn’t help with YouTube, which is the latest ad scandal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, sites that hosts their own ads like yt can’t be blocked by dns-level blocking for the most part. You end up blocking yt itself.

On that front you need ublock in browser (for now) or a modded app like revanced on android, uyou on iOS, smarttubenext on firestick, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Firefox Focus works on iOS as well, as does Safari with Focus’ Adblock rules imported!

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