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My web browsing is getting ridiculously frustrating lately. Often times it seems like 60-80% of the screen on a given website is ad space.

I keep running into situations where I can't scroll up or down because of a huge ad and have to force close chrome or the Google app to get it working again.

I am using an iPhone 7. Thinking of something before that blocks ads before the phone.

I remember reading about pfsense. Was confusing at the time. I'm a Linux noob. My current hardware is an old Netgear router with WiFi disabled and a ubiqiti AP.

What options do I have?
 
MikeRotch said:
Check out adguard

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html

I got a premium (lifetime) license when it was on sale so I can't be sure how well the free version functions, but I heard the free one is still pretty good.
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Oh man, I use Chrome, and am pretty tied into it because of bookmarks and sync. But just the free version of this app with Safari made a huge difference.
Thank you, that helps for now for sure.
Brian_B said:
Pihole
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Yes this is what I am looking into. Looks like it can be run through a VM as I have a 24/7 win 10 server. Would like to do it without additional
hardware. But may just buy a cheap pi down the road.
 
I installed one at my house. I tried to run it through a VM, and eventually the $30 for the Pi was worth it for my time spent figuring out how to get a VM to run.

Maybe if your well versed in Docker... I played with it for a day and then gave in and just threw it on a Pi plugged into a USB port on my NAS
 
Brian_B said:
I installed one at my house. I tried to run it through a VM, and eventually the $30 for the Pi was worth it for my time spent figuring out how to get a VM to run.

Maybe if your well versed in Docker... I played with it for a day and then gave in and just threw it on a Pi plugged into a USB port on my NAS
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Ha yeah I am not at all, I watched a youtube video on how to do it, but I definitely need step by step instructions. Which version of the pi did you get?
 
lightsout said:
Ha yeah I am not at all, I watched a youtube video on how to do it, but I definitely need step by step instructions. Which version of the pi did you get?
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I think I'm running it on a Rev B.

Kinda funny how on the Pi it's a nice easy smooth installation, but when I tried for anything else, it was a clusterfk.
 
I am going to give it a shot with Hyper-V and Debian. Found a guide and it looks pretty straight forward.
 
lightsout said:
I am going to give it a shot with Hyper-V and Debian. Found a guide and it looks pretty straight forward.
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Hyper-V with Ubuntu Server LTS (18.04.3?) works very well - however, for the fire-sale price of the Pi 3 (with the Pi 4 now out), that's as 'fire and forget' as you can... get.
 
Ahh, I shouldn't have messed with it lol, apparently debian 10 has issues, didn't realize that until I was almost done with the whole thing. But on top of that after installing hyper v and creating the virtual switch my server lost connection to the internet. After disabling the virtual switch in the network settings I lost access to my server over RDP. Lol good times. Seems like the PC was trying to use the newly created switch for some reason, have to go lug a monitor to my server and find out.
 
lightsout said:
Ahh, I shouldn't have messed with it lol, apparently debian 10 has issues, didn't realize that until I was almost done with the whole thing. But on top of that after installing hyper v and creating the virtual switch my server lost connection to the internet. After disabling the virtual switch in the network settings I lost access to my server over RDP. Lol good times. Seems like the PC was trying to use the newly created switch for some reason, have to go lug a monitor to my server and find out.
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In order for Hyper-V networking to work, it needs to be the primary adapter. What you're looking for is a routable IP address on the instance that is running pihole. Assuming you have DHCP being served by something on your network, that VM instance should get a routable IP, which you should then be able to reserve. Then you may use the pihole address as your DNS address in your DHCP server, and everything will point to that.
 
IdiotInCharge said:
In order for Hyper-V networking to work, it needs to be the primary adapter. What you're looking for is a routable IP address on the instance that is running pihole. Assuming you have DHCP being served by something on your network, that VM instance should get a routable IP, which you should then be able to reserve. Then you may use the pihole address as your DNS address in your DHCP server, and everything will point to that.
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Thanks for the insight that makes sense. I finally gave up. Didn't like how it took over my network config.

Just going to spend the cash when I have a few bucks and get a pi.
 
That's the caveat for Hyper-V all around; it's a great solution overall, but it's also a bit convoluted.

Note that it's not any more or less convoluted than any other virtualization solution, and with respect to Windows, it's native. However, a pi does make sense in that you do not lose DNS when your host or VM instance OS needs maintenance.
 
IdiotInCharge said:
That's the caveat for Hyper-V all around; it's a great solution overall, but it's also a bit convoluted.

Note that it's not any more or less convoluted than any other virtualization solution, and with respect to Windows, it's native. However, a pi does make sense in that you do not lose DNS when your host or VM instance OS needs maintenance.
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I hate to quit on something like that but I don't have the time to mess around and it's not that big of a deal.

And like you said during server maintenance the network would get messed up. The pi could just run 24/7 which makes more sense.
 
I have a PI that is my primary DNS server, and I have a separate VM (ESXi server) running Debian with it installed. Works like a charm and it's pretty much guaranteed one of them is up.
 
Cypher- said:
I have a PI that is my primary DNS server, and I have a separate VM (ESXi server) running Debian with it installed. Works like a charm and it's pretty much guaranteed one of them is up.
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A 'high availability' setup is on my list... just need to get another server running long enough for it to be useful :D
 
Do you have a nas that can run VMs. I run mine on 1 core 512MBs of ram and 10-15gb is disk. Heck you could even run this in virtual box if you don't like hyper v
 
Vengance_01 said:
Do you have a nas that can run VMs. I run mine on 1 core 512MBs of ram and 10-15gb is disk. Heck you could even run this in virtual box if you don't like hyper v
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No nas here, I thought about doing in with virtual box. But like the idea of a pi that is always on, so I don't have to bork my whole network when I take my server offline.
 
If I didn't have a pfsense router already, I would have gone with a RPi + Pi-Hole; dead simple to set up and tweak. As is, I went with pfblockerNG/DNSBL. Only quirk were some ssl error issues related to logging on android devices, but sorted that with tossing events on those devices in the trash ;)
 
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