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Really amazing how much money they keep squeezing out search

But it's basically impossible to escape the ads on it these days, so it's not surprising.

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>t it's basically impossible to escape the ads on it these days, so it's not surprising

ublock origin seems to do fine.

Unless you are suggesting that the ad-ladden SEO'd pages are their real product?

Even with ublock I'll stumble into a google ad for when I search for something like a restaurant or hotel

Not my experience.

I just tested "macbook pro for sale" without and without ublock and they disappeared when I turned it on. Are you able to produce an ad in a search result right now with ublock enabled?

Also PiHole is a great tool. I suggest it it you Walt a very good ads shield :)

I have used a PiHole ever since I learned that LittleSnitch resolves DNS queries (to IP) before the dialog prompts whether to Allow/Deny a connection to the unlisted host. It is an added bonus that I can route my entire subnet to the local PiHole, which prevents rogue software/OS/devices/phones from initiating undesired connections. If you know how to make a few simple IPfilter rules, you can even stop hard-coded devices (e.g. smart TVs) from phoning home with internal DNS IP addresses — all you have to do is capture all DNS queries, IPs included.

Simply blocking pagead2.google.com and googlesyndicate.com will remove 50%+ of website advertising. ReGex rules allow for ads.* (etc.), and these rules apply on your entire local network. For an added bonus, you can then use your local PiHole to resolve DNS queries remotely (e.g. from your phone) — just all around an incredible product!

/r/PiHole

How do you keep the level of service from PiHole once you leave your local network?

Run it locally on docker.

On a mobile device?

You might be able to using tmux, if you are on apple you might be out of luck, unless you want to run it on a server and set your DNS to it.

Was thinking more in the vein of similar but different to PiHole on a cloud instance. Connect as a VPN. Not sure how much lag that would introduce, and if you could use it in place of pihole for local network at home as well. Set it up once, use it for everything.

Probably not as cheap as a Pi, but more beneficial. blah blah. decisions! yay!

I have wireguard set up so that all traffic is routed through my home network

Ublock will get you 99% of the way there tho unless for some reason you're stuck using chrome. Then usually brave or vivaldi will fill in the gap. Avoid chrome always.

Can you use ublock when searching on android or iphone?

uBlock works with Firefox's mobile browser

Do you personally use Firefox's mobile browser for searching in Google? Does it work well with voice commands?

I don't use voice at all other than "set an alarm for ____" but firefox search works just fine and ublock origin works great on it. It's a little slower than chrome but you would never notice it unless you're doing ms level tests on it.

For searching in Google? I use Google with the Firefox mobile browser, yes. I also don't use voice commands on any platform, just transcription GBoard and I've had no issues.

On iOS you can use adguard or blokada and integrate it into Safari.

Not just search. it is the entire internet, save for Facebook's properties and few others. huge.

Out of broken search actually. Pretty amazing.

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