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🪤 An exploratory fly-by of Pi-Hole 6
@theregister

「 Pi-hole takes over as your network's name server, and silently redirects all web requests to known ad-server addresses to a DNS sinkhole. Everything else is passed upstream to the public DNS server of your choice. Only requests for ads silently fail, and the rest of the page loads as normal. The result is you see fewer ads 」

theregister.com/2025/03/08/pi_

The Register · Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray youBy Liam Proven

Je cherche à bloquer le "explore" de Mastodon parce que j’ai tendance à aller y voir des trucs que je n’ai pas envie de voir.

Vous avez une idée de règle #ublock pour bloquer juste cette partie de mastodon ? (sur mon instance).

"Nach Chrome deaktiviert nun auch in Edge ungefragt die Adblocker einiger Nutzer. Dabei hat Microsoft für diesen Schritt nicht einmal einen Zieltermin genannt."

golem.de/news/werbeblocker-auc

Ja, ja. Ich empfehle Portmaster. Dann ist der Browser egal.
safing.io/

Golem.de · Werbeblocker: Auch Edge beginnt mit Abschaltung von Ublock Origin - Golem.deBy Marc Stöckel

Hab endlich eine Lösung für mein #YouTube Problem gefunden. Eigentlich will ich weg davon, aber da hilft zur Zeit nur ein Kompromiss. Werbung blocke ich überall, wo es geht, aber in der App war bisher nichts zu machen. Lösung: Weg mit der App; Webbrowser mit #Adblock nutzen und von YouTube eine Verknüpfung zum Startbildschirm erstellen. Fühlt sich fast wie die App an - nur ohne Werbung. (Andere Apps wie Newpipe kann ich leider nicht nutzen)

@linux_pl Ktoś z was bawił się hBlockiem*? Jak to się sprawdza w porównaniu z uBlockiem (poza tym, że działa system-wide, a nie tylko w jednej przeglądarce)?

* „hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file, among other formats, that prevents your system from connecting to them.”

github.com/hectorm/hblock

Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains. - hectorm/hblock
GitHubGitHub - hectorm/hblock: Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains. - hectorm/hblock

Why Do You Prefer LibreWolf Over #Brave?

The community often debates privacy-focused browsers. LibreWolf removes telemetry and trackers, while Brave offers built-in ad blocking and crypto features. Some say LibreWolf is more transparent and respects privacy better. Others prefer Brave for convenience. What’s your take? Why do you choose LibreWolf over Brave?

On Linux I've tried/used the following browsers to replace Firefox:

- Zen (Firefox)
- Floorp (Firefox)
- Librewolf (Firefox)
- Vivaldi (chromium)

For the last several months I've been using Floorp and am happy with it. I use Librewolf for accessing Meta.

On Android I've used Firefox for day to day and Waterfox for accessing Meta.

IANAL: my concern is how much of the new Mozilla TOS is directly applicable to Firefox forks.

The new TOS reads like Mozilla is legally allowed to 'tee' anything you upload to their own information horde, including anything binary.

Also, something I've noticed is that sometimes when Mozilla upstream makes TOS/marketing/affiliate changes via about:config changes those changes get pushed downstream and if the downstream team misses it in the rush to get the new version out the door you may end up with these settings re-enabled.

I tried Vivaldi yesterday. Ad blocking isn't sufficient to use it as a daily driver browser. Unusable for me.

Eyes to the future for open source browser engines.