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The web is the enemy. I have an ad blocking VPN and I use GroundNews to filter out sites that have paywalls. Between those two things, I lead a relatively sane
by aldousd666 6mo ago
The web is the enemy. I have an ad blocking VPN and I use GroundNews to filter out sites that have paywalls. Between those two things, I lead a relatively sane life. But I tried looking at some of the same places on an unflitered device and man, I can't even imagine living like that. It now costs me $100/year in ad blocking/circumvention just so I don't want to kill the browser.
- doubled112 6mo agoIs the adblocking VPN doing anything some DNS block lists on your router or device wouldn’t do? You can’t do MITM on HTTPS anyway, so I can’t imagine they would do anything more than a $20 Pi Zero and PiHole, except for the fact that somebody else is managing it.
- aldousd666 6mo agoI could do that, but then I'd have to maintain it. I used to hostfile hack my devices. but the vpn is just easier.
- doubled112 6mo agoFair enough. Sometimes a VPN is also easier than forcing each device to use a specific DNS server too. I get it.