How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking

Re:How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking by m0nty on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @05:40AM (#11064459)

I'm using this on my Windows PC:

Disabled all ad-blockers and still don't get ads, and the whole experience seems faster. Presumably it takes longer for JavaScript-based utilities to block ads compared to just blackholing them in the hosts file? Anyway, might get a Raspberry Pi or just use an old small form-factor PC with it's own DNS server running the same list.

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Re:How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking by mirkules on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @06:03AM (#11064535)

The Pi-Hole script uses that same list as part of a consolidated list: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/adlists.defau...

It then installs an updater via cron to check for updated lists every week.

As to your experience with speed, I'm kind of surprised. The only time I noticed a speed difference is when I blackholed domains in the hosts file that didn't resolve to a valid web server (i.e. resolving to 127.0.0.1 without having a web server running), and that's the opposite of what you describe. The pi-hole script also installs lighttpd to serve up a placeholder page, and uses some tricks like mod_expire to improve performance.

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Re:How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking by m0nty on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @06:16AM (#11064568)

Thanks for the link to the lists, I'll try rigging that for auto-update on my PC soon.

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