If you or anyone else reading this has any experience with Linux, I’d recommend getting a Raspberry Pi and setting up Pi-hole on it. Costs about $50 total. Filters everything through a separate device on your network...kind of like a firewall for your firewall. I use safe browsing techniques and everything but that sucker still blocks almost 2,000 requests an hour. Almost 50% of your web traffic is nothing but ads and trackers.
Also edit for more info because just having a VPN doesn’t do much:
Custom VPN — blocks what you do on certain sites
Custom DNS — blocks what sites you go to from your ISP
Browser like Brave — blocks cookies
Add-on like NoScript — blocks scripts from running in the background
Custom filter like Pi-hole — blocks cross-site and background trackers, and all the rest of the junk
Then you have Tor and magnet links and the like, but that’s only if you really want to hop down the rabbit hole.
If you or anyone else reading this has any experience with Linux, I’d recommend getting a Raspberry Pi and setting up Pi-hole on it. Costs about $50 total. Filters everything through a separate device on your network...kind of like a firewall for your firewall. I use safe browsing techniques and everything but that sucker still blocks almost 2,000 requests an hour. Almost 50% of your web traffic is nothing but ads and trackers.
Also edit for more info because just having a VPN doesn’t do much:
Custom VPN — blocks what you do on certain sites Custom DNS — blocks what sites you go to from your ISP Browser like Brave — blocks cookies Add-on like NoScript — blocks scripts from running in the background Custom filter like Pi-hole — blocks cross-site and background trackers, and all the rest of the junk
Then you have Tor and magnet links and the like, but that’s only if you really want to hop down the rabbit hole.
If you or anyone else reading this has any experience with Linux, I’d recommend getting a Raspberry Pi and setting up Pi-hole on it. Costs about $50 total. Filters everything through a separate device on your network...kind of like a firewall for your firewall. I use safe browsing techniques and everything but that sucker still blocks almost 2,000 requests an hour. Almost 50% of your web traffic is nothing but ads and trackers.