Tips for living an advertising free/minimal life?
Just trying to live with as little advertising as possible and curious what tips or tricks the community has aside from moving out to a cabin in the woods.
I can't really get away from road side advertising for now. Public sporting events are completely infected, and for the ads I am forced to see I try to make a conscious effort not to buy their goods or services. I won't subscribe to a streaming service if they have a sub+ad tier, if they're separate free with ads or sub no ads I'll support it.
Not really for any moral stance, but ad blockers are good at avoiding malware and some services are basically broken if you have to wait for an ad network, and I just feel mentally healthier in general without the extra propaganda.
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No tips for physical ads, but you can set up a pi hole and route your home internet through it.
Browsing the web outside of my house now is horrendous. Pihole was the single best addition to my home network.
Adguard or mullvad dns filters, enjoy!
If you're using an Android device, AdGuard works well :)
I have adblock too but definitely better at home. Very glad I installed it.
You can fairly easily (with many routers) set up a personal vpn to have all your mobile traffic route back to your home network to use your pihole all the time.
Won’t work for like a work computer but all of your personal devices can go on it easy pie. Makes a world of difference, and keeps your traffic more private as a bonus.
I used pihole and it works, but there is management you need to do and it’s mostly just for devices using your home router.
If you don’t feel tech savvy or just don’t want to deal with managing one more thing in your life, I’d suggest NextDNS. It’s pihole as a service, basically free (first 300,000 queries every month use your custom filtering free), or unlimited queries with filtering for $20/year. They also make it easy to set up on your mobile devices, so you also benefit from low-level ad and tracker blocking on cell networks.
Another vote for pi hole. It's really great, whenever I'm browsing the Internet outside my house it realize how pervasive ads are.
Set your phone's DNS lookup for adguard. https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
I have a pihole at home, but it's easier to use adguard on mobile.
One thing which has drastically helped me, if pihole is not an option, is to use Mullvad's DNS on my phone. It helps a lot:
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
On android you can set up a custom DNS by going to: settings > network & internet > private DNS Or settings > network & internet > advanced > private DNS.
Does this work to stop ads on the Roku Youtube app?