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ABP memory usage in Chrome made me switch to router-level ad blocking. Added bonus: it works on mobile too. I have weird page renderings sometimes, and whitelisting a legit site is a pain, but it's overall a huge value to off-load the blocking to the router.

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If you're not on your network and you're on android and you're rooted you can sideload adaway to get ad blocking everywhere, including app-based ads.

Or set up a VPN to the same network that the router level blocking is on. Presumably if you can set up router level blocking, a VPN shouldn't be that big of a hurdle.

or just use firefox for android then, which also works with ublock origin anyway, and uses way less ram than chrome for android with and without ad blocking.

Do you have any documentation on this? It's something I've been interested in setting up.

I use a similar technique based on DNS: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/

I do a similar thing using Privoxy : http://www.privoxy.org/

You'll need to set up Privoxy on a machine on your network (unfortunately the config is not the easiest to get to grips with) and then set up your devices to use it as a HTTP/HTTPS proxy.

If you have a VPN, you can configure clients to automatically use your proxy. For instance, on OpenVPN, add a couple of lines to the server.conf, using your own ip + ports:

  push "dhcp-option PROXY_HTTP 10.8.0.1 4862"
  push "dhcp-option PROXY_HTTPS 10.8.0.1 4862"

That depends completely on the router software that you use. You will need to use a custom firmware like dd-wrt, tomato, openWRT, etcetera.

I run it here on tomato and use something similar to: http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/auto-dl-hosts-f...

It's safe to assume I have a standard Linux system. I have an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter now, and a few regular x86_64 always-on systems behind it I can proxy traffic through if necessary.

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