• Kelly@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I haven’t seen any more than the single tile on my xbox home screen.

    I wonder if its regional or just that my ad blockers are working.

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      30 days ago

      It’s on YouTube, broadcast tv, and I unfortunately can’t run adblockers at my job. At home I’ve got a pihole that works wonders. It’s amazing how horrible things are when I’m not behind it.

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        29 days ago

        I guess that would do it.

        At home I’ve got a pihole

        How is the pihole from a maintenance perspective?

        I have my family using adguard DNS on our mobile devices and it does a great job of killing ads in the mobile games my son plays (and browsers of course).

        I unfortunately can’t run adblockers at my job.

        Ouch! We have deployed ad blockers on all supported bowsers as a matter of policy to meet our security goals.

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          29 days ago

          Once you set it up, it’s fairly low maintenance. I’ve got one setup at my parents house with a cron job set to auto update blocking lists and software. The hardest part is finding the right combo of lists that block everything you don’t want but allow what you do.

          The Pi it’s on also has plenty of power for a vpn server as well so I can hop into their network when they have issues or to do data syncing.

          And yeah, I’ve brought it up with security and they’re thinking about network level blocking. They don’t like browser plugins that basically need access to inspect content on every single web page you crawl. Who knows what data might leak.