Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Malware and Ad blocker

  • 29-09-2019 5:38pm
    #1
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,049 ✭✭✭✭


    https://github.com/hectorm/hblock

    Tried this for the first time today.
    It is comprehensive ..... 145,613 domains blocked!

    I have disabled my ad-blockers while testing, and so far, no ads.


Comments

  • #2
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    Have you tried pihole? I swear by it, I have it running in docker on a Centos server for network wide blocking. It even blocks ads on my daughter's iPhone
    https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

    491872.jpg


  • #3
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,049 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    Have you tried pihole? I swear by it, I have it running in docker on a Centos server for network wide blocking. It even blocks ads on my daughter's iPhone
    https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

    No, I have not tried it, although aware of it.
    Looks like impressive stats.


  • #4
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    No, I have not tried it, although aware of it.
    Looks like impressive stats.

    Yeah the reason the blocking stat is so high is that my wife likes to play a game on her phone which is riddled with tracking and adverts. Looking at the stats I can tell exactly when she's been playing :D

    I'm using the ticked lists in pihole from here https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php


  • #5
    Spocker
    Moderators Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Spocker


    +1 for PiHole, it's an excellent piece of kit - I use mine for Ad Blocking, as well as my DHCP server, running on a Raspberry PI


  • #6
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,336 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    Two interesting projects I was not aware of .. thanks!

    Also of interest to me was the license pi-hole is distributed under, namely EUPL. Wiki tells me it's around since 2007 but it was not a license I've encountered before so also interesting!

    Now, I need to dig out an old pi to start playing around. :)


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    croo wrote: »
    Now, I need to dig out an old pi to start playing around. :)

    No need for a pi, run it in a vm or in docker on anything :cool:


  • #8
    Spocker
    Moderators Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Spocker


    The high horse brigade wrote: »
    No need for a pi, run it in a vm or in docker on anything :cool:

    But you still need to run your VM or Docker on something, right? PIs work for me because they are small, cheap, headless and easy to hide


  • #9
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    Spocker wrote: »
    But you still need to run your VM or Docker on something, right? PIs work for me because they are small, cheap, headless and easy to hide

    Yes, but if he's like me and into stuff like this he will already have other stuff running on something running all of the time


  • #10
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,795 ✭✭✭Worztron


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058019093/malware-and-ad-blocker

    Peppermint OS uses hblock as their new ad blocker app (via the hosts file).

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



Advertisement