Pi-Hole vs Ublock

Gokul Kannan · Aug 20, 2020

devangpatel said:
NextDNS is good but hosting on AWS is costly but it gives more flexibility since I can update block list whenever I want and can monitor and block network traffic easily.

Does NextDNS block all youtube ads?

NextDNS doesn't block YouTube ads

royalroy · Aug 20, 2020

JB700 said:
You can use both. Pi-Hole and DNS based blocking will block system wide rather than just on the browser (uBlock Origin, ABP). I would recommend using uBlock Origin though as ABP doesn't block so called "acceptable ads". Don't use regular uBlock use uBlock Origin specifically.

DNS Adblocking can block things like Microsoft Telemetry, Mobile Ads etc which browser adblockers can't.

DNS Adblocking can't block things like YouTube ads or Instagram and Facebook sponsored posts because these use same domains as regular content.

I just use both so if something isn't picked up by network wide DNS blocking, it will be blocked at browser.

Hey, have you set up DoH with your pi-hole? My ISP forces its DNS servers on the upstream pi-hole DNS and I need to get rid of those.

Ameen · Aug 20, 2020

venkatachar said:
No, YouTube ads are tricky. There is no silver bullet for YouTube ads apart from subscribing for their premium account 😉

YouTube vanced but just for Android though.. 😬

JB701 · Aug 20, 2020

royalroy said:
Hey, have you set up DoH with your pi-hole? My ISP forces its DNS servers on the upstream pi-hole DNS and I need to get rid of those.

You can use either Cloudflared Configuring DNS-Over-HTTPS on Pi-hole - Pi-hole documentation or unbound . Cloudflared also supports other DoH providers not just CF.
Unbound can be configured either as recursive DNS Server where it asks for root servers or as forwarder. You should set it as forwarder as your DNS is is being hijacked.

Redirecting...

Use example 2 config file from here

https://calomel.org/unbound_dns.html

You just need to modify the config file of cloudflared and add more DNS over HTTPS urls

venkatachar · Aug 20, 2020

I derive my AdBlock list from The Big Blocklist Collection and I have around 6 lakh domains on the block list. This list blocks most of the ads. I rarely block anything manually by blacklisting. Orange pi zero runs pretty well for the list I have. Blocking too many websites is also a pain because when websites break , you need to whitelist them one by one. Also if you are running unbound on the server, you don't have to worry about DOH.

v1rus · Aug 20, 2020

That is where I started but it was not nearly enough as we still had lots of mobile ads in the games that family plays on their mobile devices. I have optimized my blacklist that we do not see many pervasive ads (some still sneak in) while there are no complaints about the usage. I am pretty sure that I had ~600K domains in Gravity when OrangePI Zero crapped out.

I get some issues due to link re-directions with my browsing behaviour and I use SkipRedirect to circumvent most of the issues.

venkatachar · Aug 20, 2020

@v1rus, I have only few games on mobile and I do not see a single ad. Anyway the load on the network adblocker is different for each user.
Based on the usage one has to decide the Device.

Pi-Hole vs Ublock

Gokul Kannan

royalroy

Ameen

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venkatachar

v1rus

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