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Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)
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this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Run a pihole or similar
Your web browser is just one piece of software on your network capable of displaying ads and collecting data
That’s reminds me, I should go update mine.
I'm only familiar with pi holes on a cursory level, but you have to update them manually? This is a bit of a turn off.
You could schedule it with cron. You usually don't need to update the lists very often though, and you don't want to either as you're just wasting the bandwidth of the hosts of the lists, who aren't making any money off hosting them.