• Foni@piefed.zip
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      8 days ago

      I use AdGuard; it’s not perfect, but it’s simpler than anything else and it works, I don’t know, maybe 80-90%.

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        8 days ago

        I don’t play a ton of mobile games, but the ones I have tried: the ads just fail to load. Most games even treat it like the ad was watched and give you whatever reward was behind the ad view.

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        8 days ago

        Yes, not even inside games.

        When we’re out of the house like during vacations, the kid will automatically warn me when I forget to turn on the VPN because of the ads he gets.

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        7 days ago

        That’s why I prefer pihole over things like nextdns; it’s quick and easy to modify filters to allow things through and fix specific blockages that shouldn’t be there. Or just disable the blocking altogether to be automatically reenabled shortly after.

        I’d rather take the occasional 30sec to bypass the blocking now and again vs seeing ads on every possible digital surface.

        It’s been well over a year since I had to do even that.