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Computers / Consumer Electronics / Networking / Uncategorized

February 23, 2019

Pi-Hole My Retrospective

Good day, This is Ron from Ron the Admin dot com. Today, I am going to be posting my retrospective about running the Raspberry Pi-Hole on my home network. I have been running this system for the past three weeks. The initial response was positive. Overall the system is blocking ads correctly for those which are on the blacklist. For ads being served through whitelisted domains instead of using a 3rd party system like adsense or microsofts ads, it won’t work. You will need to use an ad blocking software on your browser. However, I don’t see that as an...

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Networking / Technology

January 26, 2019

The New Adpocolypse

This is Ron from Ron the admin dot com. In recent tech news google is going to make changes to its web browser Chrome that may break ad blocking software. Ars Technica states that google wants to “crack down on malicious extensions that can undermine user’s privacy and security.” This is very odd on my opinion as Ad Blockers great at protecting your privacy. Especially on your computer as some exploits and malicious code can come from unwanted advertisements. I have been using ad blocking extension for years to help minimize the risk of javascript based exploits, click bait sites...

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