This is a screenshot from an NPR article discussing the rising use of ad blockers. The page is 12 megabytes in size in a stock web browser. The same article with basic ad blocking turned on is 1 megabyte.

  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Jeff’s solution is pihole not firefox? I thought ad blockers did way more complex and subtle stuff than the DNS approach of blocking entire domains?

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      9 months ago

      I’d go with “firefox with uBlock Origin” + “pi hole or similar”.