• ikidd@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    8 months ago

    Use firefox and ublock origin, and all that ends. I haven’t seen an ad in a decade.

    • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      8 months ago

      Yeah, Firefox and ublock. Plus privacy badger, and Blokada5.

      Still got me somehow. The ad showed up in an app, not a browser. Updated/added more blocklists.

      EDIT: You were right! Get a gold star for that one. The Lemmy app I use was still set to open links itself, not the default browser. I forgot I’d changed it when I used Sync, but not when I switched to Connect! I still had many ads blocked because of the VPN.

        • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          8 months ago

          Yup, got that too for my home network. Though I suspect several advertisers have gotten wise and hard coded different DNS into their programs. I don’t see the requests I think I should on some devices. There is not a lot of troubleshooting when it comes to IPv6 and while there are many AAAA queries on my server, there are a higher percentage on the server I set up for my parents.