[creeble]

Curious about anyone's experience with adblock for OpenWRT.

I use Pi-hole now, and it works great. The one feature that I use quite a lot is the ability to disable it for a short period of time -- when I'm shopping for something, Google ads are sometimes actually useful!

I'd say I use that feature about once a month. That's the sum value of advertising for me.

[ronjouch]

OpenWRT's adblock package has a "Suspend" button too. Also, domain whitelisting.

[teddyc]

OpenWRT ships with dnsmasq. You just need to edit /etc/hosts to have all the unwanted domains resolve to 0.0.0.0

I like to get my host list from https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

[Abishek_Muthian]

That's interesting, Where do you see relevant Google Ads while shopping; is it on some product review blogs?

Did you check the 'Shopping' tab of Google search?

[SmirkingRevenge]

One example I've run into...

When you google search for something (like say a product or service that you want to purchase), you'll see a couple ads at the top of the results.

Pi-hole usually prevents most ads from even displaying, but those always show up. If the ad was useful and you want to click through, it will generally block the request. I think the click through sends you to doubleclick or something.

I've never disabled pi-hole in that situation, but there have been times when it was an annoyance because the ad was actually relevant.

[Abishek_Muthian]

Understood, I think Google features those products in the shopping tab. But the results may vary depending upon the country you're in as I think they ran into some trouble for that in EU.