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The guide does include ways to whitelist sites [1] you'd like to support (and mentions it's a good idea!) and is on a per-site basis. It pulls in an ad list from a popular site [2].

[1] http://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-as-an-ad-blocking-acc... [2] http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers

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I think he was talking about a way to quickly toggle the ad blocker on/off.

Yea, I didn't write that part out, but it would be fairly easy to write a bash script to turn it on and off (and even a simple web site with a on/off button, as you are running apache in one of the solutions). You could just move the dnsmasq.adlist.conf file out of the dnsmasq.d directory, and then restart dnsmasq.d, and vice versa.

Even better, with a Raspberry Pi, you could build a physical switch to flip to turn ads on/off.

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