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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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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
There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
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