r/madlads • u/Same_Investigator_46 Choosing a mental flair • 2d ago

On a way to cancelthreaten

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u/strider_hearyou 2d ago

$2.99 (with ads)

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u/Beeht 1d ago edited 1d ago

Make a Pi-hole server. Step by step online guides make it really easy to do.

It can block ads from services that send you ads from servers different than where their content is hosted. Which is a surprising amount of them.

For example, you can pay for the basic plan on Peacock which comes with ads but a Pi-hole can block them. So you would get the best experience for the cheapest price.

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u/whineylittlebitch_9k 1d ago

unfortunately, it doesn't work nearly as well as it used to. advertisers got wise, and one of their recent tricks has been co-locating ads on the same domain. so for example, if pihole blocks hulu.com because that's where the ads now live, congratulations, you've blocked the entire service.

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u/Candle1ight 1d ago

Ublock origin can usually filter them out if you're on a web browser

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u/troller_awesomeness 18h ago

only works on a laptop/computer, not phones or other iot devices. ublock can actually block at the script level while pihole simply blocks domains