Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
danciestlobster@lemm.ee 2 months agoI have ubo, what are your other kinds of ad blocking? I always want to block as many ads as possible
Adblock plus, flashblock, ublock, and one that stops videos from autoplaying but i can’t remember it’s name right now.
My roommate has raspberry pi but it messes with his’s wife’s work software so we never have it active. Which is a shame because i’d rather use that.
The Pihole has groups that you can separate devices with and remove blocks for those devices.
So you can have your stuff fully blocked and then her device can have the problematic blocks removed.
JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I suspect they might be talking about a DNS based ad blocking solution. Like Pi-Hole or AdGaurd DNS.
They work by blocking DNS requests made by ads so the content can never be accessed. They’re theoretically more powerful than browser extensions as they have the opportunity to block ads anywhere.
Kalysta@lemm.ee 2 months ago
While we have one (Pi-hole) I can’t use it right now because some of my roommate’s work software won’t run with it and we haven’t had time to troubleshoot. So I have a bunch of extensions in my browser on my pc
JK_Flip_Flop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You could configure the DNS only on devices that don’t have issues with it rather than the network as a whole?
Opisek@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That, and you can also decide what (if anything) gets blocked on a per MAC/IP/FQDN basis, so you can explicitly allow ads for specific devices.