uBlock Origin isn't "an adblocker" either. It's a security tool. It blocks of course ads but also trackers and all kind of shit with multiple optional lists provided by default as well as the ability the have custom lists. Some people even provide blocklist for LLM-generated slopsites or french fascist billionaire owned ones.

@maya_b @adamshostack @briankrebs

I've been using #Technitium for years now on a linux box and point it to Quad9 as the upstream DNS. I don't often get to say this, but so far it keeps happily doing its thing in the background with no muss or fuss.

I watch the dashboard to check the stats and to watch for occasional updates, but it absolutely does the job it was designed for. 4 Million+ sites in blocklists, scheduled to auto update every 2 hours... & zero lag.

Buy physical media, or torrent.

Neither are particularly hard.

Funny thing that the article mentions Google, but it's software is essentially malware as well and had best be disabled on Android devices. The only trustworthy source for applications on Android is F-Droid.

Also note that these boxes themselves are also used by legitimate TV services. The specifics is in the software and you can likely find a way to remove the malware if you happen to have an affected box. If that malware is tied to some illegitimate TV application, you'd possibly lose access to that service. Generally these boxes are simply cheap and won't be affected, but you're always taking a risk when any proprietary software is involved.

I never connect TV WiFi or Ethernet for similar reasons.

Did you guys see Jalen Milroe had his first really good practice?

Counting eyeballs is, was and always will be an awful metric

As a small business owner we tried online advertising. Hundreds of dollars down the toilet.
Not a single sale.

the initial first lookups take a fraction of a second, after that, they're instant as their local and on your lan.

you can also install it on a raspberry pi device (Pi-hole was designed with the rPi in mind) and just point your devices to that as the DNS.

depending on your router you can probably also specify the dns devices in your dhcp settings so down stream devices will get it automatically once you've set it all up.

@devnull @adamshostack @briankrebs

I have thoight about doing that, but wonder about lag?

Sadly my router atm isn't OpenWRT but I think it can be? But I've not dared try to flash it. But I think you can do stuff like that on there if you do.

...then I really don't feel sad for them.