• Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I may be a crazy old bastard but I have never used an ad blocker. I just use plain simple blacklists. Too many ads or obtrusive ads go on the list and I just don’t see those sites anymore. Otherwise I’m fine with ads.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah but… a block list is just another blocker. The real question is how you’re implementing it?

      Android’s host file protection makes it impossible to modify without root.

    • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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      7 months ago

      I assume you’re adding the blacklist into your host file? How big is your block file? I remember one think that finally pushed me to use pihole and adguard a few years ago was due to my large host file causing >1s dns lookup time. Moving to pihole improved performance significantly in my case. Not sure if OS these days can handle large host file without huge performance impact though.