Fed up of adverts and tracking?

Fed up of adverts and tracking? #1071364 31st Aug 2019 10:49am
Joined: May 2011 Posts: 1,318 Wallasey TheComputerLab OP Forum Addict
OP TheComputerLab Forum Addict Joined: May 2011 Posts: 1,318 Wallasey	Hi, If like me you value your online privacy and are fed up of being bombarded with adverts (especially YouTube!) Then have a look at pi hole. I have just installed it and it is remarkable! This is a fairly advanced utility, you will need a raspberry pi or a virtual machine. Plus a bit of Linux experience or be able to follow tutorials.... or know someone that will do it for you! In the past hour 10.2% of all the traffic i have used has been blocked as adverts or tracking data.

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Re: Fed up of adverts and tracking? TheComputerLab #1071367 31st Aug 2019 1:34pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 14,517 Likes: 32 Wirral diggingdeeper Wiki Master
diggingdeeper Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 14,517 Likes: 32 Wirral	On Firefox I use the uBlock Origin plug-in, looking at the stats it has blocked 367,682 adverts or 15% of traffic, some sites won't work if you have an ad-blocker. Even works with ITV Player (or whatever its name is today) removing the ad breaks. On Opera an ad-block (and free VPN) is built in. I have no objection at all to simple adverts being placed at the top of a page or down the side, I have a huge objection to dynamic adverts that not only slow things down enormously but grossly interfere with your normal browsing. It scares the life out of me when I switch off my ad-blockers, many pages become virtually unusable and remind me of some torture techniques We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk