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A solution for you and some other tech savvy individuals; not a great solution for the rest of my family. Plus, it ignores the systemic problem in exchange for personal one-off bandaids.

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A one-off solution like this is really the only type of solution we have in the face of a massive ad tech industry that largely piggybacks on top of, and inserts itself into, foundational network and web protocols.

Fixing the problem itself would likely require legislation and regulation to get ad tech companies (or the companies that use the ad tech) to pay attention to the data use.

So, there are two solutions - one-off bandaids, and legislation.

Many homes can run whole their route.

Im curious how much time or money you’d be willing to invest and spend monthly to have this solved simply?

Homes, sure - what about mobile devices? What about the rest of my family who's not at home? What about the sysadmin work I'll have to put in to support this?

Support can be greatly minimized by using tailscale pointing at a router or docker routing internet outbound.

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