I found this site https://blocklister.gefoo.org/ads only ads and facebook lists are free on their main page. They look like they are doing a great job. The thing is I want something like uBlock Origin in my router. Right now, I’m using public Adguard DNS server (default), seems like itself alone doing a decent job on mobile phones (freeware games, facebook etc. can’t see any ad). I want to improve this more with DNS static entries on Routeros because I still see sponsored ads on Instagram and Twitter etc.
What way should I follow? Above link has tons of entries, if I import them at once, does it make my rb951ui-2hnd crawl and freeze due to CPU and RAM overload?
I don’t know that service but I only mentioned OpenDNS because it is an external service, not a blocklist that could potentially affect your router performance.
my experience is that external services like OPENDNS dont’t really block the stuff I would rate as evil. So go for DNS blocking on your router or proxy with blocking rules.
Adguard DNS is also an external public DNS service like Google’s 8.8.8.8. https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
Just alone itself doing wonders for my mobile phones in my network, just like I said above about freeware games and their ugly fullscreen ads, can’t see them anymore.
How many DNS static entries I can enter to my board without overwhelming it?
Anyways, I tested this http://www.squidblacklist.org/downloads/tik-dns-ads.rsc which has 5K entries. It took half a min. or so for importing and It is OK for the memory as it took 20MB approx. but the thing is when browsing, CPU spikes up to 70%-80% and it is not ideal at all!
So I deleted those entries. After all, using Adguard public DNS does great job, it also has malware domains on their filter list (don’t know if its good like Norton’s DNS) but it must be a decent one.
I just entered 10 DNS static entries now, just specific for Twitter, YouTube and Google’s sponsored ads etc. that I see on my mobile devices. I took a look on uBlock Origin’s ad list for it.
Im interested in this method of blocking stuff. Ive been experimenting with using a small list of well chosen names and “catch” words. After doing a bit of browsing on sites well know to be littered with ads and looking through the dns cache, I have good results with this small list. Not perfect by any means but Im looking to just block the most common stuff.
Perhaps a few of us can work on this and refine it? Its quite small currently and could grow a bit bigger without affecting performance - although lets face it there is going to be a hit but optimising the list will give good results without it being noticeable.
Some observations regarding ad blocking in my experience.Using Firefox,[and possibly chromecast], always use Ublock Origin and Decentraleyes on PC or android. Ublock lets you customize extra blocking of images you dont like on a page, and can be turned off on a per page basis. Decentraleyes minimizes content delivery volume.
Use static DNS in your router to apply filtering to all devices in your network. OpenDNS Family protects 17 content areas from porn to drugs using 208.67.220.123 and 208.67.222.123. Sadly, it does not filter ads. Adguard DNS Default + Safesearch does all at 176.103.130.132 and 176.103.130.134. [As of now, adguardDNS is offline temporarily.] If u want a way to filter global content on your android, use DNS66; it does selectable host files [Adaway one is minimal and effective;you can do multiple] and custom DNS servers. You get it using Fdroid…both are free.
I did notice by using Adguard DNS in my router that the big banner ad always on the right in the channels menu of my ROKU is GONE! kinda nice…
If you are willing to pay, the best for taking all ads out of everything including games for phones is Adguard Pro, but the setup is tedious… happy filtering…
After some success and failures I refined my small list down to the following which covers a great deal of ads and stuff I dont want curious kids looking at. Extremely low impact on performance.Hope its useful.
Use these servers to block ads, tracking and phishing
176.103.130.130
176.103.130.131
Or use IPv6 addresses
2a00:5a60::ad1:0ff
2a00:5a60::ad2:0ff
Family protection
Default + blocking adult websites + safe search
176.103.130.132
176.103.130.134
Or use IPv6 addresses
2a00:5a60::bad1:0ff
2a00:5a60::bad2:0ff
Cleanbrowsing also has free ads service i use it on the wireless guest, it has malware, porn filtering, vpn filter too for you to bypass your ads is very good. regards
Filter Primary Address Secondary Address IPv6 DNS over TLS
Family Filter 185.228.168.168 185.228.169.168 2a0d:2a00:1:: family-filter-dns.cleanbrowsing.org
Adult Filter 185.228.168.10 185.228.169.10 2a0d:2a00:1::1 adult-filter-dns.cleanbrowsing.org
Security Filter 185.228.168.9 185.228.169.9 2a0d:2a00:1::2 security-filter-dns.cleanbrowsing.org
Family Filter
Blocks access to adult content, proxy and VPNs, phishing and malicious domains. It enforces Safe Search on Google, Bing and YouTube.
Adult Filter
Less restrictive than the Family filter and only blocks access to adult content and malicious/phishing domains.
Security Filter
Blocks access to malicious and phishing domains.[6][better source needed]
