<story><title>Mmm, Pi-hole</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/mmm-pi-hole/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ObsoleteNerd</author><text>My Pi-hole with updated block lists (blocking trackers as well as ads) sits at around 87.7% requests blocked, which is absolutely  mind-blowingly ridiculous.&lt;p&gt;I see absolutely no negative effects browsing like this. Everything I&amp;#x27;ve come across still works fine. Even sites that detect uBlock Origin and tell me to disable it, will work with that disabled and Pi-hole still blocking the ads instead.&lt;p&gt;I heavily believe we should be supporting creators, and go out of my way to support them in direct ways (Patreon, buying merch, direct donations, Twitch subs, etc), but I absolutely will not submit my family&amp;#x2F;kids to the mess that is online advertising these days.&lt;p&gt;Ads that look like legitimate download buttons, or that run scripts to do cryptomining popunders, autoplay video ads with sound, etc etc. Modern online advertising companies are malicious entities that actively harm users, and I absolutely classify them as malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>&amp;gt; I heavily believe we should be supporting creators&lt;p&gt;As do I. There&amp;#x27;s two significant issues I have supporting most sites:&lt;p&gt;1. They provide only a subscription that is comparable cost to an old-media full subscription. Like most people in the Internet age I have a small number of main sources that I visit daily, and a much larger secondary tier where I may average one or two stories a week. Or they&amp;#x27;re the sites linked from here that I only visit when something interesting is waved under my nose.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no low user or micro transaction options for these, so I get a choice of pay say £10 a month or nothing, for a site I &lt;i&gt;might&lt;/i&gt; be getting £1 or 10p a month &amp;quot;value&amp;quot; from.&lt;p&gt;2. I&amp;#x27;m yet to find a site that takes my subscription and turns off ads &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; invasive tracking. Just ads. Still not an equitable deal.&lt;p&gt;Leaves things a bit stuck, and me paying out a smaller amount than I&amp;#x27;m willing to.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mmm, Pi-hole</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/mmm-pi-hole/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ObsoleteNerd</author><text>My Pi-hole with updated block lists (blocking trackers as well as ads) sits at around 87.7% requests blocked, which is absolutely  mind-blowingly ridiculous.&lt;p&gt;I see absolutely no negative effects browsing like this. Everything I&amp;#x27;ve come across still works fine. Even sites that detect uBlock Origin and tell me to disable it, will work with that disabled and Pi-hole still blocking the ads instead.&lt;p&gt;I heavily believe we should be supporting creators, and go out of my way to support them in direct ways (Patreon, buying merch, direct donations, Twitch subs, etc), but I absolutely will not submit my family&amp;#x2F;kids to the mess that is online advertising these days.&lt;p&gt;Ads that look like legitimate download buttons, or that run scripts to do cryptomining popunders, autoplay video ads with sound, etc etc. Modern online advertising companies are malicious entities that actively harm users, and I absolutely classify them as malware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greymeister</author><text>&amp;gt; Modern online advertising companies are malicious entities that actively harm users, and I absolutely classify them as malware.&lt;p&gt;This is exactly the response for anyone that is frustrated by blocking ads impacting revenue for web publishers.  Had the ad tech not become so invasive and pernicious, users wouldn&amp;#x27;t be going out of the way for solutions like this.  The advertisers have essentially forced our hand.</text></comment>