Privacy is mentioned a lot in the threads, but for me this is really something that bugs me.

As an example, I installed a Pi-hole at home (basically catches all ad traffic and tracking traffic and does not respond to it or allow devices to respond to it). Since installing it I receive reports on the amount of tracking happening on my home network. On average it is between 15% and 20%.

I'm not able to distinguish tracking from advertising in this percentage, but it is still a lot of traffic that technically I did not ask for.

Imagine reading your book and every 5th line of text is an ad. At the start it would be annoying, but gradually you become used to ignoring it until you find a way to not "have to" see it.

I am sad to see that this is the "normal" practice for online advertising.

EDIT: Added the link to Pi-hole

For anyone with the aptitude: pi-hole.

You essentially set up a tiny PC and route all internet requests through it, then give it a block list. Nothing connected to your network can complete requests to domains on the blocklist. Phone, PC, Smart TV/Washer/Fridge/Etc, nothing.

I honestly cant remember the last time I saw an ad, and it can block anything trying to phone home in the background as well.

why is there so much shilling in this site againt adblock plus and its whitelist feature? companies dont pay adblock to whitelist their ads, they pay adblock to review their ads and see if they fit the rules of the whitelist.
This process is transparent to the community and they can give feedback. This is exactly the compromise the internet needs, a way to fund sites through advertising and a way to tone down the annoying adverts.
edit: Their ad whitelisting critera: https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#criteria

You can still block everything by disallowing acceptable ads in Adblock Plus settings.

This "allow acceptable ads by default" thing was introduced 3 years ago in Adblock Plus version 2.0.

I have one, and I've used it as a filter for my network at home to block ads. I used https://pi-hole.net/ as a guide.

Basically it blocks the ads on the network entirely, so I don't get any on my phone as well as my computers. Sadly it doesn't include ads on TV shows, but I'll take what I can get.

Raspberry Pis can be used to make pretty much anything, if you know what you want to do with it.

Use something like the Privacy Badger add-on provided by the EFF. It dynamically checks to see if sites are following through multiple different pages and blocks them. If those Facebook like buttons cannot load, they cannot track you.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

I use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger is made by the EFF and is set to not block anything at first, but as you navigate the web it will learn which domains follow you around and keep track of your location, and begin to either block cookies or outright intercept and deny requests to those domains.

It takes some manual tuning, for instance I couldn't use my github login or see my gravitar, so I changed those from completely blocked to just blocking cookies, and it will often block images from large CDNs, but you can see every domain blocked and make decisions for yourself.

I highly recommend it. Here's what it looks like on Reddit, and here's the EFF's page: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

They don't unblock ads from people that pay them. They have a thing called "acceptable ads" which is turned on by default and allows non-intrusive ads to bypass the adblock, this can easily be turned off in the settings. Considering that this is the sole reason many people used adblock (so ads would stop using intrusive methods like pop ups and autoplaying videos), it is not a bad idea.

What companies pay for is for Adblock Plus to research their ads and see whether they consider them acceptable, which Google's ads are. If they aren't acceptable then Adblock Plus will tell them how to make them acceptable and when that is done they are added to the acceptable ads list.

I don't see why people think this is a bad idea, the thought behind adblock was never to starve website of ad revenue, it was to starve website which used shitty ads of ad revenue and make them change their advertising tactics to more acceptable methods.

A company with shitty autoplaying flash ads can't just pay ABP to unblock their ads. That isn't the point. This is their source of revenue and is beneficial for ad companies and the end user.

Edit: Here's what and who has to pay

> * Only large entities have to pay. We qualify an entity as large when it gains more than 10 million additional ad impressions per month due to participation in the Acceptable Ads initiative.

> * For these entities, our licensing fee normally represents 30 percent of the additional revenue created by whitelisting its acceptable ads.

https://adblockplus.org/about#monetization

Must meet the acceptable ads criteria or whitelisting is impossible. https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#criteria

This is the right way to operate an adblocker, everyone wins.

Thanks for the heads-up...I have a Pi Hole on my network so I added these hosts from the post to the blacklist to block this, but you can also stop them by adding them to your HOSTS file:

redshell.io
api.redshell.io
treasuredata.com
api.treasuredata.com

FYI I would recommend VeraCrypt over TrueCrypt as development has long been discontinued on the latter, and it has been found to contain serious vulnerabilities.

Also uBlock Origin instead of Adblock Plus - much faster and more trustworthy.

AdBlock and AdBlock Plus are different softwares. AdBlock Plus have not been purchased, AdBlock has. Also, the Acceptable Ads program is 'not' a bought spot. It's a whitelist with non intrusive ads which you can opt out of.

>No applicant will be favored or treated differently, and no one can buy their way onto the whitelist. Everyone has to comply with the criteria and everyone has to go through the same process before the ads qualify as "acceptable."

From Adblock Plus's FAQ.

I have little to no issues with non intrusive ads. It's about time advertisers on the internet stop with the intrusive terrible ads. At least this shows that companies are starting to realize how big of a market they lose by allowing ridiculous ads to go live.

Thanks for posting! This needs to be higher up.

For anyone not using ~~an ad-blocker~~ uBlock Origin, the Dallas Observer's website is an absolute disgrace. Still is disgusting, really, it's just slightly more tolerable sans-advertisements.

E: Added link to the official GitHub for posterity. See my comment below as to why I (and many others, read all the comments!) find uBlock Origin superior to ABP.

This is the number one reason I use ublock origin on all browsers and installs I setup. Just too many malvertising hosts to risk it these days.

edit: specifying the one I use with link

FBAG Fight Back Against Goolag/Google (and fakebook, scamazon, microsoft, etc)

Use ublock origin, ublock protector and a hosts file like this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts Block ads, block adwords, block AMP, block google ad services. Demonetize Facebook, Microsoft and Google. End this tyranny!

Also on Duck Duck Go, you can search google using "!g" without giving them hits.

Also note using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for DNS servers gives Google EVERYTHING so DONT use those. I run a local DNS and blacklist those IPs.

Also, if you can, you can run PI-HOLE and use DNS for your whole house to protect and defend TRUTH. https://pi-hole.net/

Demonetize and take down these louts. BRAVE is a browser which puts advertisers in touch with you directly bypassing trash like Fakebook, Goolag, Scamazon.

Time for Google to Go, because its so 1984

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

DDG - theme song. CUCK CUCK, NO!

I have pi-hole on my home network and I used to play a voodoo game. Every time I start the app or progress to the next level I could see a flurry of blocked requests flood the log.

I run a pi-hole. Network wide ad blocking. Even blocks ads in phone apps like games, etc. It’s not perfect obviously but it helps and you can configure the block lists to be more or less restrictive.

I just installed it this week.

For those who don't know:

https://pi-hole.net/

Software you can install on most OS but usually done on a Raspberry Pi that blocks ads at the DNS level (you make it your networks DNS provider). It has more or less same blocklists as uBlock.

pi-hole: https://pi-hole.net/

You basically install pi-hole, give it an IP, and set that IP as the DNS server on your router. It will filter out a bunch by default, and you can also whitelist and blacklist on the web interface as needed, as well as import other lists (though this takes some finesse, as a lot of lists block things like imgur).

If you don't want it network wide, you can just make the pi-hole ip your dns locally and only machines pointing to it will use it.

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https://adblockplus.org/

Check out Vivaldi. Made by the guy who originally started Opera. It's much more like the old Opera 12 with new and great features. (You should check it out too, /u/TLM_A) :)

I'll just leave this here

Set up your Raspberry Pi and router and your entire home network will be ad-free. No need to tamper with individual devices, no iPhone jail-breaking etc.

> To add: why are you taking money to let ads through? That's completely against what the software is for.

In 2011 we already introduced our Acceptable Ad initiative. Virtually all content on the web is financed through advertising, and we believe that publishers should be able to earn money through adblock users who opted out of traditional advertising.

We are very much against bad ads: the video ads, the overlays, the auto-playing ads, anything that moves, anything that is too big, anything that interrupts the reading flow etcetc. And this will always we blocked by default. Having that said, many users do not mind small, well distinguished, non animated ads. And that is why we are unblocking a few unobtrusive ads which have to comply with our Acceptable Ad Criteria, so the hundreds of websites and companies we work with can still earn money.

And yes, we only charge the 10% largest companies, so we can keep our services (whitelisting, consulting, monitoring etc) for free for all smaller publishers and companies.

[EDIT: Typos]

Adblock Plus is a different company. I don't know enough about Ublock Origin to say but I'm using privacy badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They're the good guys.

They're also not just "paid for." adblock has a criteria they have to meet to be allowed. This is intended to encourage companies to make less intrusive advertising.

https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#criteria

If you are able to spend a bit of money, you can build a pi-hole using a Raspberry Pi. It acts as a local DNS server.

That server has a list of known ad-serving websites, and rather than connecting to them, returns a 1 pixel gif. Makes all page loading much faster, and eliminates most ads from all devices using your home network, including phones.

Your ISP will still have data to sell about you, but if enough people refuse to be served third-party ads, the value in doing so will decline.

someone didnt actually read whats going on. This isnt true at all. adblock is letting companies buy 'reasonable ads'.. THIS IS SHARED WITH CONTENT CREATORS. Thats the freaken point. Now the content creator doesnt even have to go through the adblock ad service, they can be like reddit here, and just only do acceptable ads and then get whitelisted by adblock and get 100% of their revenue.

If they dont, they can CHOOSE to go through the adblock ad exchange and put ads on their site and share revenue with adblock.

Seriously what OP is saying just is NOT true.

here is how you get whitelisted for having your own ads

AND HERE IS THEIR NEW PROGRAM OF REVENUE SHARING. using theri ad exchange.

>It’ll begin doing that through an ad marketplace, which will allow blogs and other website operators to pick out so-called “acceptable” ads and place them on their pages.

they put the adblock ads on their site THEMSELVES.. its all theri choice. They can even tell adblock to fuck off.

YSK: some people who post to YSK might not know what they are talking about and you should always double check.

(and users can turn off even acceptable ads if they want none.. i'm an ublock origin user, but i like this adblock program.)

Regarding uBlock Origin, I will repeat here what I just posted on Twitter:

I was contacted in March by one of the researcher regarding the "behind-the-scene" issues (the "AppCache" and "SW" columns in the tables).

As a result, this was fixed in 1.15.20.

Looks like you need to root, and create a custom hosts file - http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

And setup a DNS blackhole at home, like a Pi-Hole - https://pi-hole.net/

Log all the DNS lookups, and then add them to your hosts file.

Leave the TV on static for a couple days. It may be too late for your TV to reverse the effects. Worth a try.

Just switch the tv to its tuner and pick a channel that doesn't come in at all.

Edit: If you are unlucky enough to have a digital only tv tuner in your tv. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN-KIlsxxOw

Edit 2: Apparently, some people don't use this https://adblockplus.org/ make sure it's installed in Chrome/Firefox to not sully the black magic Youtube video I linked.

uBlock Origin is open source, and offers a ton of better performance on older pcs/laptops.

Source (of my comment and of the app lol):https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock and The screenshot from the chrome page

Look at all these tabs I have open and tell me that it uses a lot of ram.

It helps that I switched from AdBlock Plus to uBlock, which is way faster and uses far less memory, even less than FF with out any ad blocker.

E: I'm agreeing with you, btw.

You should change to uBlock origin if you actually want to block ads, as Adblock Plus has a program where advertisers can pay them to have their ads be let through and could be considered assholedesign itself.

So, a couple red flags.

First off - Vivaldi had a press release ready to go on this. I mean sure, they could just be excited about being the default browser and the devs may have reached out to them to let them know but... seems odd.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-is-the-default-browser-on-manjaro-linux/

Seems odder still that the co-CEO of Manjaro decided to do this in a "community" edition. Per said press release:

>To give Vivaldi more of the attention it deserves, I decided to include it as the default browser in our popular Cinnamon Community Edition. With its remarkable browsing speed, exceptional customizability and especially the way it values user privacy, Vivaldi for me is a perfect match for Manjaro Linux.”

If I had to guess I would say that Vivaldi paid to be the new default, probably with the thinking that, if there is minimal backlash, they will pay more to be the default distro wide.

Not great if it is the case.

Fucking hell, how many times is this going to be repeated? Adblock has an acceptable ads policy. They accept ads that are not intrusive and make money off of that (but only 10% of those in the whitelist actually paid for the spot). That's how they maintain the project.

1. The whitelist can be very well disabled

2. They were never silent about the whitelist and they even prompt you with a page explaining it when you first install adblock plus (at least they did on mine)

3. Having an acceptable ads policy is good because it promotes the growth of free content (free for the consumer at least) and promotes a clean advertising model that is not intrusive

4. It's not the "latest versions" and that just shows how ill informed you are. They have been doing it for years.

https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

Bottom line, adblock plus has a good policy but ublock origin is better because it consumes less resources and has more options not exclusive to content blocking.

Exactly this. We are a small company (<50 employees), which is supporting:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Firefox Mobile
• Opera
• Maxthon
• Internet Explorer
• Safari
• Our Adblock Browser for Android
• Our Adblock Browser for iOS
• Our iOS content-blocker
• Edge (when Microsoft finally allows extension support)

Read more about our monetization model and why we are charging a few large entities:

>In fact, we have a small but growing team that supports our users and the increasing amount of participants who choose to partake in the Acceptable Ads initiative.

> Our goals are simple:

> * Continue to work on Adblock Plus so that it can function on various platforms > * Keep improving the functionalities of Adblock Plus to provide users with the best possible tool to protect them from malware and have better control of their browsing experience and collection of their personal data In regards to the Acceptable Ads initiative, Eyeo needs to review and analyze many applications. This includes reviewing ad format, safety precautions, compliance with the Acceptable Ads criteria and technical feasibility of the requested whitelisting, creating the filters for the whitelist, testing the filters, posting to the forum, etc.

>But, Eyeo is not just about Adblock Plus and Acceptable Ads. Our mission is to make the Internet better. We intend to do so by creating new ways for publishers to earn money from their content without alienating their users.

They're a Chinese subsidiary now. A lot of the core Opera devs left to create Vivaldi which is more true to the original Opera mission. It's still young though but it seems promising.

Using Pi-Hole you can block adverts across your entire network with no need to install any software to them at all. Just run the installer (command is available from website) and then set your devices to use your Pi as their DNS server. It can even improve the speed of your network as advertisements are never loaded.

Sounds like you'd benefit from an ad blocker... https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#installation

Might not do anything for your views on which sex acts degrade women or not, but it'll at least keep some of the advertising at bay.

EDIT: updated link to uBlock Origin, the one I use and the one I meant to link in the first place.

I'm an uBlock Origins user as well . But before you keep rewriting that sell out rhetoric you should actually read about their Acceptable Ads program. First and foremost you can click and turn it off if you really don't want to allow it but the whole point is that they work with companies to serve less obtrusive and more distinctly labeled ads. Furthermore they provide said whitelist so you could easily copy paste to the blacklist if you didn't trust it.

People say they will whitelist a site if it doesn't have obtrusive ads, well, here is a tool that lets you do that.

DNS adblocking. Never have to worry about it.

You can go here on changing your DNS to block ads

Or if you want to go a different route, research Pi-hole

Edit: You can configure your router to cover all devices or do it individually. I'm able to configure it on my cellular network also

Resources for the project:
Pi-hole network wide adblocking
Script i modified to get the LEDs to work
The LEDs are part of a moel Traffic Light board.

The scripts monitors the pihole.log and flashes the red LED when a domain is blocked. The green LED just indicates the script is running.

Sold to a Chinese company a good while ago.

Co-founder of Opera, Jon von Tetzchner, left long before that, though. He went on to develop Vivaldi, basing it off Chromium (the completely open source base Google Chrome also comes from).

With Vivaldi's creation, he brought into the modern age many of the features (such as tab stacking) that made Opera 12 and earlier so great, and it only continues to improve.

Use Brave, developed by Brendan Eich — a rather famous programmer who got forced to step down as Mozilla's CEO because he donated $1000(from his own pocket) to a political campaign that was anti-gay marriage.

It's no coincidence that this is about the same time period that Firefox began getting ran into the ground, btw.

Brave is also based on Chromium(the open source version of Chrome before proprietary garbage is added) so it should be similar to Chrome in performance.

It also has a very interesting take on advertisements to help fund websites in an adblock world. Essentially instead of begging people to turn their adblockers off they came up with a way to make ads desirable for the end-user(non-intrusive, fully anonymous/no tracking, requires opt-in, etc.) Don't think it's 100% ready yet though. Capitalism is great.

Yes and no, pi-hole works like a water filter. You put the filter (a raspberry pi running pi-hole) on the water pipe (your router) instead of each cup (each device). So when the water (internet) comes through it catches all the lead (ads) leaving you with nice drinking water.

Here's the website so you can learn more https://pi-hole.net/

sigh

It is usually the non-porn sites that get you. Porn sites are trying to sell you stuff. Other sites are trying to sell you ads. A small segment of ads contain things like malicious javascript, so you end up getting crapware through drive-by-browsing in regular websites that serve up ads.

Get a pi-hole

And it is not like you need to disable a firewall to get porn anyways. What is this world cumming to? (Porn probably)

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

From the command line in any supported OS and you're off to the races (https://pi-hole.net/ for info).

No reason you have to use a pi, folks just do so since they're cheap to buy and run full-time (among other reasons).

Just FYI

> The comments from people promoting ublock always seem artificial to me. Like they hired a growth hacking company or something.

Free. Open source. For users by users. GPLv3 license - code is freely available on Github... There is literally nothing to sell.

That said, I would be quite entertained to read what conspiracy, commercial or otherwise, you see in that.

> why there is a ublock.org with its own separate repository?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock#History

>In April 2015, Hill transferred administration of the "uBlock" software repository to Chris Aljoudi[13] who created the site ublock.org. However, in May 2015, Hill announced that he would no longer contribute to the version maintained by Aljoudi, but would continue to develop and maintain only "uBlock Origin", where he retains full control.

Some more info here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md

It's a fairly long but not complicated process, but basically involves purchasing a Raspberry Pi 3+ (it's about the size of a cigarette packet), installing Raspbian, and Pi Hole on it. You then connect it to your real router, and set all your devices to use the Pi's DNS.

See

1. https://pi-hole.net/
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8mi1oAvAg

I use their browser extension Privacy Badger for all my ad-blocking needs online.

> Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.

While using the free browser extension Ghostery, my browser only made 31 requests and loaded in 828 ms.

Not bad.

http://imgur.com/a/eCyOO

> then I guess find an alternative

Or just untick the &quot;Allow non-intrusive advertising&quot; checkbox in Adblock Plus settings. This was added 3 years ago.

Ublock uses less resources that adblock

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-vs.-ABP:-efficiency-compared

As for whether that would make a practical impact in your life worth taking the 30 seconds needed to uninstall adp and install ublock origin? Might result in a couple minutes extra battery life on laptops, that's about it.

32-bit & 64-bit binaries are available for both Windows and Linux. I believe Mac only has a 64-bit build since OSX 10.6 was the last release to support a 32-bit environment.

All binaries are available here: https://vivaldi.com/download/

More websites these days think they can catch me with this shit, well they are wrong.

ADD BLOCK PLUS ELEMENT HIDING HELPER. https://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper

You may have to select more than just one element to get rid of the entire pop-up ( as they are usually made up of multiple elements) including the stupid darkened background element but it works 9 out of 10 times.

Ghostery has sold data before, which is why I wouldn't recommend it. Though it was recently bought out.

Personally, I use Privacy Badger from the EFF.

I suggest an app like Adguard Pro that implements a system-wide ad blocker. I've been able to play a lot of freemium games that would have otherwise shown a full-screen advertisement either after or in the middle of its gameplay.

You know, I don't know! I was hoping one of you might know. I've been very happy with Brave however, so I'm not in the market for another browser anyway. brave.com is a terrific browser adn it runs on Chromium, so it uses all Chrome extensions. Nice! It blocks ads, has a built in Tor tabs feture and allows you to pay sites you vist with BAT (crypto) to replace ad revenue.

This change in permission warnings is caused by two things:

• uBlock needs to "Change your privacy-related settings" to disable network prediction -- this is to ensure Chrome does not open TCP sockets before uBlock can block them. See: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-the-required-permissions#change-your-privacy-related-settings

• a new permission system launched in Chrome 44 (current beta) adds the "Read your browsing history" warning to any extension which requests the tabs permission. See: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/272#issuecomment-107701105

It's local network level DNS passthrough software that is built to block ads at the source, for any device on your network. It has a handy interface that allows you to find, pick and block ad servers like the one on the TV, without needing to futz with your router or hosts files.

You can run it as software on a computer but it was engineered for the Raspberry Pi, a super cheap single board computer.

https://pi-hole.net/

>UBlock Origin - it uses less CPU/RAM and shows no ads.

>Adblock (Plus) allows certain ads. They will also demand money from "larger entities" to let ads through. While I'm not a fan of ads (I use uBlock Origin), I'm also not a fan of how Adblock (Plus) makes money - they are basically running an extortion racket. This makes marketing more expensive even for good/nice/no-spammy/well-behaved companies:

> … our main source of revenue comes as part of the Acceptable Ads initiative. Larger entities (as defined below) pay a licensing fee for the whitelisting services …

> Regarding fees, only large entities (those with more than 10 million additional ad impressions per month due to participation in the Acceptable Ads initiative) have to pay.

>https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#revenue

Source

1. Install https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
2. Consider paying in cash for sensitive things (or just more frequently than you do today).
3. Check your phone's location sharing preferences and limit everything to "Never" or at most "When I'm using the app".

Adblock Plus wasn't about eliminating ads from the internet, it was made to stop annoying, obtrusive, and harmful ads. I can deal with a stupid banner ad, we all can, but advertisers want to be seen because that is their job. They began breaking out of their box, adding sounds, making things difficult to close, this is what Adblock was against. Adblock Plus has a whole page about acceptable ads and if you read the site when you downloaded it, you'd know this was here for years and years. You can argue about how they are doing it and if that is good or bad but don't act like they were against all advertisements.

We need ads, people. There is so much content on the internet and no one wants to pay for 99% of it. What we don't have is dialog between advertisers and the ones being advertised to. We tried blocking it and advertisers are trying their hardest to circumvent these tricks. We are being just as stubborn as the advertisers so maybe if we take a step back and figure out what kind of ad is acceptable and which isn't, we can make the internet a less shitty place.

On an unrelated note, don't use ABP as adblocker.

It's actually tracking you, and behind the scenes, enables certain ads. They make revenue from ad networks by shaking them down.

Use a free, open-source ad-blocker & tracker blocker like uBlock Origin.

https://pi-hole.net

You can buy a Raspberry Pi off Amazon for <$40 for a fast one, or <$15 for a slower one.

You download and install the software on a sim card.

Plug SD card into Pi.

Plug in Pi to power and network.

Get into your devices' (PC/Phone/Refrigerator/etc.) network settings.

Point the DNS to the IP address of the Pi.

Fin

(DNS is the internet phone book. By doing this, you're making a device constantly read the phone book, and erase a bunch of assholes from it before you read it.)

EDIT: Not a sim card. Long day at the cellular factory mill.

Where to begin? There's so much...

I suggest you think of some of your other hobbies and interests or things you do, and then a project that would apply to those other parts of your life, or is something you'd thought you'd like to have before, or just something that makes your life easier... If you start on a project that pays off personally in that way, you're more likely to enjoy it and actually use it. Not to mention actually finish it...

That being said, if you're brand new to raspberry pi's there's probably lots of projects that you haven't thought about before, or that are good ones for other reasons. Not necessarily "build" projects, but things that are interesting or things that your pi can do for you... Like pi-hole for online ad-blocking on all your devices, or maybe an ADSB receiver for seeing what aircraft are flying around your home. Maybe set up a home media server, or your own cloud storage solution. Of course home automation is a popular (and never-ending) project.

But the best projects are ones that don't have tutorials or ready-made code, and are completely customized solutions to very specific issues or use cases that apply to you. Yes they are usually the hardest, but those are also where you learn the most. And the pi lets you do them all! Before you know it, you'll be ordering yourself another one lol!

Are you using the supplied, rented Comcast Xfinity gateway?

If you are, there's your problem.

I used to do tech support for Comcast. Those things have so little memory onboard it's laughable, and their route tables max out super fast. You're lucky if you hit 10 devices before it all goes to hell.

Ther answer depends on how tech savvy you are when it comes to networking.

For most 'heavy users', but with little-to-no networking experience, Netgear Nighthawk line is decent. I won't say great, they've got a number of little bothersome problems to them, but they don't max out anywhere near as low, and are fully functional for most folks in such use cases.

If you're willing to invest a bit of money, and some time, a Ubiquiti setup is actually incredibly affordable, and simply will not max out till you start hitting the 100+ seats range.

Finally... there's pfSense. Sky's kinda the limit on that, and the default out-of-box is decent... but you're basically building a router from scratch. Great fun, but... yeah. :)

In all cases: Just get an off-the-shelf, garden variety DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem (I assume you're using cable Internet) and go.

Also something to think about: pair any of the aboth 3 with a Pi-hole, and watch all the advertising across all your smart devices just disappear. Lowering your overall bandwidth used per month by a good 20%. You cannot Pi-hole on the Xfinity Wireless Gateway; they won't let you change DNS servers.

uBO supports default-deny if you want: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

The rules can also be set on a per-site basis, i.e. if scripts from a specific 3rd-party domain are needed on one site, the rule can be set only for that site. All rules are temporary by default.

>mostly through the Act Blue donation engine. If you have ever been on a site like Daily Kos, you know what i am talking about.

I'm not familiar with that site or Act Blue, but could you use Ad blocking to prevent her from seeing any "reminders" to donate? Most browsers have ad blocking extensions available or a whole-home ad blocker (built-in to router or a Pi-Hole) might be better if you have control over the router.

German here, who previously lived in the US and got acquainted with the different attitudes toward data privacy. I think what currently happens should in the US should teach Americans to rethink their negligence when it comes to data protection: Imagine the big tech companies were not trying to turn their opposition towards the Trump administration into profit, but instead would collaborate with Trump. With the data and technology it would be an easy thing for them to create huge data bases about who opposes trump and who has strong dissenting attitudes towards him.

The history of Germany (Gestapo in the 3rd Reich and Stasi in the GDR) has made many of us more aware of the dangers of carelessly letting other people allot lots of data about them.

EDIT: For some easy steps towards more privacy (easier maybe than to delete your account), consider installing Ghostery which prevents Facebook and Google to track you while browsing on sites that e.g. use Google Analytics or Facebook Like Buttons. Offer friends to send you PGP encrypted mails: Not even NSA can crack mails that are encrypted with 4096 bits. I found this introduction quite helpful. Installing gnupg and enigmail is easy!

EDIT2: As /u/Audiovore pointed out, Disconnect or Blur might better alternatives to Ghostery.

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Phase one of our Developer Channel Preview does not include token confirmations / rewards for ads, but provides a preview of the ad unit and flow, along with an early look at some of the user controls.

The upcoming phase two of our preview will include token confirmations, and rewards for viewing ads.

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Nice, but i recommend uBlock Origin instead of AdBlock.

Relevant link: https://medium.com/@trybravery/please-stop-using-adblock-but-not-why-you-think-13280e76c8e7

Just as important are Chamath's comments about social media ripping apart society. In the end, it all goes back to sites being forced to monetise through advertising. Something which bitcoin micropayments (and layer 2 tech) will address.

See brave browser for an early glimpse of what an ad free internet looks like. It automatically removes all ads and trackers, and has an inbuilt pay what you want model that funnels bitcoin payments to your favourite sites based on the amount of time you spend on them.

Hi there,

You're on the right track with that! This requires to subscribe to a malicious Filter via user interaction.
However we're aware of other implications and are already working on a fix for this.
You can find our official statement for this here: https://adblockplus.org/blog/potential-vulnerability-through-the-url-rewrite-filter-option

Cheers,
-Jessy

> BITTE DEAKTIVIEREN SIE IHREN ADBLOCKER

Öhm, ich hab gar keinen Adblocker, Herr Spiegel. Aber ich hab ein hosts file, dass alle möglichen Tracker auf 0.0.0.0 umleitet, die mich unerlaubt durchs Netz verfolgen. Kannst mir gern Werbung anzeigen, geblockt ist da nichts.

Even if Adblock disappeared tomorrow, I would still be sheltered from many of the worst ads because I also use NoScript plus all Adobe Flash content I have set to Click to Activate. I'm not anti-ads, I'm just don't like how intrusive some ads are and how they can seriously affect the performance of some sites. For sites I use regularly I have adblock disabled but even then many ads are still blocked because I refuse to allow some scripts by ad networks such as doubleclick.

Lastly Privacy Badger (from EFF) helps too.

Suit yourself, but the installation is as easy as clicking the download button for the xpi file on https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

You might have to allow the website to install addons, though.

Here's an excerpt from ABP's website page on whitelisting:

https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

> To ensure transparency and fairness, the following rules have and will always apply to everyone without exceptions: > > * Participants cannot pay to avoid the criteria. Every ad has to comply with the criteria. > * For transparency reasons, we add all Acceptable Ads to our forum to provide our community with the opportunity to submit feedback. We greatly value feedback and read all comments. > * Adblock Plus users are valuable to us and we listen to them. If, for valid reasons, any Acceptable Ads proposal is rejected by our community, the ad(s) will be removed from our whitelist. > > We are able to keep our open source product free by charging large entities a fee for whitelisting services. For the other 90% of our partners, these services are offered free of charge.

The stupid thing is that doing shit like this will just make ad blocking even more prevalent. Which means that the user sees a few ads here and there and isn't really bothered by it - suddenly they're seeing loads of ads, even in their start menu and it starts to become such a problem that drastic measures are taken meaning that no ads are seen anywhere. ever.

Privacy and Win10 are 2 different things... but in this case, maybe the server that Win10 was trying to communicate with was blocked by the router or something else... so it kept trying again and again ... It happens sometimes with my Pi-hole

I think I have to mention ublock origin is the better alternative. It's from the original author from unlock before he leaved ublock and started ublock origin.

Source: ublock origin

Isn't Debian Jessie 100% free software, including the kernel? The only reason it isn't a Stallman-approved distro is because you can enable non-free repos easily if you want to (they are not enabled by default).

I'd say the reason that people want Vivaldi to be 100% FOSS is related to privacy. They have over 30 people in their team, so you end up wondering how they are making money out of this.

Thanks!

pihole -up

> Changelog:

> Add theme support for Pi-hole #1253 (@DL6ER)

~~Yay! How long until someone posts a dark-grey theme? Pretty please ;)~~

It has a dark-grey theme included! Woohoo! :D

Edit: (a quick reminder to donate to the fantastic Pihole project if you can)

Edit2: If your dashboard graphs arent loading after the update, try force refresh in your browser: CTRL+F5

There was, as I understand, a kerfuffle between devs. The original creator (gorhill) handed the project off to someone else, who mismanaged it quite severely. It turned out the guy was very young (17) and relatively inexperienced in handling the responsibilities he'd been given, and happened to fuck it up right in the spotlight.

He handled the criticism reasonably well and made appropriate changes per gorhill's requests, but after uBlock Origin was spawned out of this issue by the original creator, users flocked to it as it was guaranteed stick to his vision. uBlock is now a more independent project, free to be updated separately. Gorhill's uBlock Origin is the better one to use, as his vision for the project is what spawned uBlock in the first place and he has stuck by it very firmly.

edit: heavily amended per /u/devlP's criticisms

You are wrong.

Adblock Plus (not AdBlock) started the Acceptable Ads program, AdBlock has implemented the same whitelist.

The AA program whitelists ads that aren't annoying. The criteria is here. The shit about selling out is retards not knowing how to read and just seeing the word money. Small websites with acceptable ads get whitelisted for free. Huge sites and ad agencies like Google also have to pay a fee, but the criteria is still the same. Disabling it altogether is just one click.

Neither extension harvests personal data, only basic anonymous telemetry, and both are open source.

All that said, uBO is still better on resources, but I'm sick of this misinformation spreading.

That's the whole point of acceptable ads. Ads that do not inject malware and are not intrusive. The whole idea is to make the internet a better place, where content authors can still have ads to make money, as long as they adhere to the guidelines of not fucking shit up everywhere.

You can read about the whitelist here.

To the garbage bin with this then, despite its really compelling Turbo compression mode.

Opera's spirit departed its body and settled into Vivaldi anyway and they got an android beta. Too bad the latest source code for Presto wasnt properly released (older 12.15 source leaked a few years back).

this and this i'm guessing

basically they allow companies to pay to stop their adverts being blocked, which surprisingly defeats the point of an adblocker

Do they realize that Adblock has acceptable ads? If advertising companies would create less visually intrusive ads, and/or if sites would place ads in acceptable places so that users didn't feel the need to block them, there wouldn't be an issue.

>Adblock Plus exists to save its users from annoying ads. However, we don't think that all ads are bad, and we are fully aware that website owners need them to survive. Therefore, we have established strict criteria to identify Acceptable Ads: unobtrusive ones that don't need to be blocked. Websites that are willing to comply with these criteria can apply to have their ads added to the Acceptable Ads exception list, which will unblock them for most users. Note that if you don't want to see any ads, you will always be able to opt out of this. https://adblockplus.org/en/about

This is wrong >Completely false. uBlock Origin (and uBlock) does not "trigger" any "ads API" (whatever that is). It prevents network requests from being made according to filter lists so that your browser does not connect to remote servers, period.

If you want people to switch to Ublock Origin, great. Stop spreading the "Adblock has ads that are paid to make it through" FUD though. Not only is it instantly, permanently able to be shut off, but there's more to it than &quot;we paid to stay active&quot;.

One thing it doesn't mention is the nuking of SD cards. Because of the extensive logging it can kill your SD card quite quickly. I set up a pihole with a brand new SD card (same model and brand that I almost always use and has always been reliable) and it was playing up within 6 months. So I now run that pi off a USB HDD and it's more reliable.

EDIT:

Yes, my SD card died, yes your's has probably been running for 2 years "no problem". Even though you've not noticed any problems, the frequent logging will be slowly but surely be killing your SD. SD card longevity is based on number of write-cycles. So the less you write to it, the longer it lasts. My load was, on average, 90,000 DNS requests per day, as 4 people were using it across at least 11 different devices. Also size and usage of your SD will also affect how long it will last. Mine was a 16gb card with ~10gb used, so it didn't take long with roughly 16.5 million DNS requests logged across the 6 months it was in service, for at least 5gb of it to be killed. Once the amount of your SD that has been killed is more than the free space, that's when you run into problems.

An SD card just isn't so suited to this kind of write-intensive application. So I could've solved my problem by getting a 64/128gb SD to replace it and it would've been fine for a few years. But I'd rather just run it off a HDD and know it's not slowly dying.

Some good news is this slow SD card genocide will stop soon as in a new release logging won't be necessary for the query log to work. (Thanks u/Mcat12 for pointing this out).

If you use uBlock origin be aware there is a bug caused by the latest Firefox update which broke it. See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases.

I had to go back to the old version linked on that page as re-installing did not fix it.

EDIT: uBlock have now released a fix (reverting to pure webext for now): https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.14.0

Are you using any of the following?

• Avira Antivirus
• Junkware Removal Tool
• SpyHunter 4

See: Software known to have uninstalled uBlock Origin.

> redshell.io > > api.redshell.io > > treasuredata.com > > api.treasuredata.com

These addresses and domains aren't included in MVPS, yoyo.org and Dan Pollock's hosts files (for links, see: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts). I've understood that these list are the most widely-used, but I may be wrong.

Due to Chrome 45+ regression bug. Workaround:

• Open a new tab.
• Type chrome://apps in the address bar.
• Remove YouTube app (right-click, Remove from Chrome...).
• Restart the browser.

My kids never see ads. The small one wanted stuff for bathing, maybe something that colored the water. Big one a mattress for the outside shelter. My parents hate finding gifts for them. We said any small token is fine if they can't find something, even 2nd hand, if they insist on a budget add to their savings. They find a gift that matches the budget that ends up cluttering their room and never gets used.

-edit- since this could be misunderstood as a smug thing, my point was that kids that don't get exposed to ads and have most of the stuff they need, don't really wan't anything. I can highly recommend cancelling cable and putting a pihole on your network.

you can just install Pi-Hole on the raspberry pi, aim your routers DNS servers at the Pi-Hole IP address and then sit and block sites whenever you want typing them in via the pi-hole URL.

it will also show exact URL's accessed from devices across your network

https://pi-hole.net/

here's a video on how it works - https://youtu.be/vKWjx1AQYgs

it's primary purpose is an adblocker, but it will be pretty perfect for what you wanna do. Nothing needs to change on your network, attach the Pi via ethernet cable to your router and leave it there.... all other devices in your house connect to the network exactly as they were before. No one will even notice.

It's not unique to Adblock. Even the almighty uBlock Origin is suffering from these issues.

Regarding the numerous complaints about "Youtube ads": It's a new Chrome 45+ bug.

Workaround to restore uBlock Origin's ability to block Youtube ads, as found by a user: - Open a new tab - Type "chrome://apps" in the address bar (without quotes) - Remove "Youtube" app - Reference: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/675#issuecomment-137957141

tl;dr switch to firefox