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Re:Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad b... by __david__ on Thursday May 31, 2018 @01:48PM (#17198439)
Also if you run OpenWRT/Lede there is a package called 'adblock' that does roughly the same thing as pihole, without the extra hardware requirements.
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Re:Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad b... by ballenf on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:12PM (#17199154)
The company in the source article also has a DNS service (adguard dns: 176.103.130.130 & 176.103.130.131) that blocks ad domains.

It works pretty well, but requires trusting them to follow their privacy policy (which is good) as with any DNS provider.

I've found it useful and lower maintenance than other approaches, but you trade power and flexibility. And is presumably less performant than preventing the lookups in the first place.

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