- Ad-Blockers
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is a program that removes, hides or otherwise prevents
an internet advert or related display from being shown
to a user.
- Browser-based Ad Blocker
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An ad-blocker that runs on the browser itself, usually
preventing a DNS request from firing based on the URL.
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An example that I use personally is
uBlock Origin
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Since this runs on the browser, this does not help
with network requests made from outside of it, like
external apps
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DNS-based Ad Blocker
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is a program that prevents network requests to banned
hostnames from being fired successfully.
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I use Pi-Hole for this.