<story><title>Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole</title><url>https://drexl.me/guides/wireguard-pihole-vpn-setup.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dclusin</author><text>I found DNS ad-blocking solutions to be pretty lackluster and lots of ads were still getting through. With uBlock Origin only sites ahead of the curve were getting their ads through (porn sites, facebook, etc.). Couple this with Bypass Paywalls[1] browser extension and the web is pretty usable.&lt;p&gt;I also tried to go one step further and setup mitm-proxy to man in the middle all of my traffic to see if I could do more invasive but thorough ad filtering. Certificate pinning from the likes of instagram, facebook, apple, and google really stymied this approach. So all in all, I don&amp;#x27;t see much benefit from DNS adblocking instead of ublock origin.&lt;p&gt;1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;iamadamdev&amp;#x2F;bypass-paywalls-chrome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;iamadamdev&amp;#x2F;bypass-paywalls-chrome&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole</title><url>https://drexl.me/guides/wireguard-pihole-vpn-setup.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oil25</author><text>The rationale stated for this work is preventing ISPs from being able to monitor and potentially sell information about Internet usage, which is reasonable and worthwhile. But by hosting a VPN with a third party, haven&amp;#x27;t we simply reassigned the same responsibility to someone else rather than absolve it? Is Digital Ocean more trustworthy than, say Cox Communications? How is this risk to be calculated, especially by a layperson?&lt;p&gt;I believe low-latency anonymizing networks like Tor might be a better more suited for accomplishing the task of obscuring one&amp;#x27;s own network traffic. In fact, I&amp;#x27;m typing this comment from Firefox with uBlock Origin configured to use a Tor SOCKS proxy which is always running locally - eliminating ads and making little attributable netflow in my wake.</text></comment>