• bearboiblake@pawb.social
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    5 hours ago

    you can get a raspberry pi and install something called pihole on it, it’s a DNS server with ad-blocking. basically, it converts a domain name like example.com into an IP address, but rather than just faithfully supply DNS, it also effectively blocks some adverts by acting like the domain names don’t exist for servers that run ads

    once it’s set up it’ll just work, and it should protect everyone on your network/wifi from some ads

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      4 hours ago

      Just gonna add that it can also be installed directly to any Linux PC or in a docker container. The raspberry pi isn’t necessarily necessary.