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1. drnick+zU[view] [source] 2025-09-30 15:29:05
>>ry8806+(OP)
"After years with Pi-hole, which now blocks over a million domains, I’ve become incredibly accustomed to a mostly ad-free web. Without realizing it, I’d forgotten what the typical internet experience feels like."

It is estimated that between 30% and 50% of Internet users run ad blockers. I haven't see a single ad in years.

Besides, Pi-holes are kind of overrated. First, ad blockers running in the browser are simply more effective. Second, Pi-hole is kind of heavy for what it does; you can accomplish the same by loading a blacklist directly to the config file of Unbound/Bind/Dnsmasq.

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2. jayd16+xe1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 16:56:41
>>drnick+zU
Is that right? Mobile is like 60% of the web traffic and they don't really have popular and effective ad blocking.
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3. 1dom+Nf1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 17:02:08
>>jayd16+xe1
There are native, easily accessible ublock variations for Firefox for Windows, Linux and Android.

A lot of nerds also have some form of private overlay network with default DNS to adguard or pihole or similar, again, making for identical adblock experience on all platforms.

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4. jayd16+9q1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 17:50:29
>>1dom+Nf1
Yes and it seems great but there's no denying its not widely used.
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