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Reannlegge@Reannlegge@lemmy.ca

My Firewall was not putting out last night. So I could not get any pihole action.

So last night my firewall decided to say F you Reann and stopped working for no apparent reason. I called my ISP to see if it was anything on their end but it was a big nope. It was rather late at night and I do not have computers with monitors at my place so I thought I was SOL. I was frustrated that I could not do anything because I had the bright idea of deleting one of my two static IPs out of the router and than reboot it. I thought to calm my frustrations I would play some games on my ipad, and holly poop am I ever not used to all the ads in mobile games. Luckily my youtube ad blocking does not require anything else on my LAN so I put on some videos and went to bed. In the morning I remembered I had a ethernet to USB adapter and a USB A to c adapter so I would be able to fix it that way. Don’t know how many times I needed to fix the firewall because I broke the internet trying to fix my boo boos and a few times the firewall just said F you Reann I am not putting out. But it is now fixed and I can enjoy my moble games and web browsing mostly ad free!

So I had no pihole action on my LAN.

Like seriously how do people hand how many ads are shoved at you when you are using your devices?

I was on DuckDuckGo this morning trying to fix things and wow the ads, really made me miss searXNG.

Luckily I do not get spam, I spin up a new address for everything so I did not get those ads at least.

SuspiciousCarrot78@SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone

Replying to @⁨Reannlegge@lemmy.ca⁩

What are these ads you speak of? 😎

Kidding aside…ya’ll go crazy with your piHoles and such and I’m over here using software that just…doesn’t serve ads. I think the most I’ve had to do is install Karma Firewall on the kids tablets and maybe change the front end on the TVs (which doesn’t connect to the net, though media stick does).

That and uBlock on browser seems to give me 90% of the results of using pihole, pfsense etc. So, I just…stopped using them.

Now, when I visit my folks…yeah…holy shit…but I wonder sometimes if some of this adblocking stuff doesn’t go overboard.

It’s a little bit like the four rules for winning a street fight.

  • Avoid stupid people.
  • Avoid people doing stupid things.
  • Avoid stupid places.
  • Avoid stupid times.
Edited ⁨⁨Aug⁩ ⁨13⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨16:55⁩⁩en
irmadlad@irmadlad@lemmy.world
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Replying to @⁨SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone⁩

I mean, people fetishise it. Ad blocker, third-party cookies blocked, fingerprint-resistant browser, Pi-hole, VPN… all to visit Reddit.

Well, if I were visiting the raw, unfiltered version of Reddit, I’d want a condom for my network. That place is nuts.

When the simple solution is Lemmy.

Reddit is a vast repository of data and info not really present in Lemmy.

As far as plugins for anti fingerprints, et al, I keep them to a minimum. My standalone pfsense firewall does a lot of the heavy lifting so all I really need on my browser is Ublock Origin.

ETA: I didn’t notice who I was replying to, lol. Good to see you again.

Reannlegge@Reannlegge@lemmy.ca

Replying to an earlier post

I got into self hosting because my place flooded and I was waiting on insurance and the repair people to fix give the go a head and then to actually fix my place I do not really go anywhere so I was fine with being blasted with ads when I was out of my home, until I caught myself watching ads to get extra whatever from a mobile game. I had a pi zero 2 (with a PoE hat) that was not being used for anything so I thought why not use it to host wireguard, I had looked at a few options for VPNs but thought wireguard fit my needs the best. It “worked” I do not know if it was just my copper internet speeds or the silicon in the pi zero 2 which slowed everything down but now that I have a dedicated OpenWRT firewall, fibre, and a static IP (well technically 2 I just do not use the second one because the weekend project of spinning up my own SMTP and IMAP server had me at the point where I wanted to pull out my hair), I have wireguard automatically turn the VPN on when I am away from my LAN. So I would only see the adds if I went on someone elses device.