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> why no home router makers have put ad and track filtering in their products is slightly mystifying

French ISP "Free" used to vocally advertise their router ad blocker (consumer interest). They also vocally claimed to be the underdog and fought YouTube then Netflix (huge data volume interconnections are expensive). If I'm not mistaken, in all the 3 cases they ended up "settling"

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While it would be awesome to have hardware that did the heavy lifting, I don't like the incentives for commercial products anywhere near the ad-space. It would only be a matter of time before a firmware update allows "permitted" ads through because the advertiser paid the proper sum. It may be time to finally set up my pi-hole.

I set up NextDNS instead of a pi-hole, because frankly pi-hole seemed a bit daunting as a non technical user (if not setup, proper maintenance) and it's been great, between that and uBlock Origin I feel well shielded, and when I use my wife's iPad with neither of these I'm appalled at what the internet has become ad-wise

I was using PiHole and switched to NextDNS and it’s been fantastic. It’s way easier to maintain.

just beware that pi-hole and nextdns are not the same thing, albeit they maybe solve the same problem on the user end.

but nextdns is suffering from the same problem as every other centralised service (beeing a prime point for siphoning information on a large scale and a easy target for manipulation)

Thanks yeah it's a fair point, but at my skill level I have to make trade-offs and in this case I hope that the increased attack attractiveness of NextDNS relative to just my one endpoint with pi-hole is still a better solution than me poorly managing that one pi-hole config

I wanted to set up a Pi-hole and even bought a Raspberry Pi, but then I realized that : - It didn't really support IPv6. - Neither did my ISP. - It was hosted on Github. So I gave up on the idea...

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