Linux Magazine #232 - Print Issue

March 2020 – Stop Ads

Web ads and ad scripts can slow down your system and gum up your web experience. Browser-based ad-blockers are useful for controlling many types of popups and banners, but they are less effective with ads built into applications – and they are often difficult to implement on mobile devices. This month, we look at a couple of alternative tools for blocking ads at the network level: Pi-hole and Privoxy.

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