Just trying to live with as little advertising as possible and curious what tips or tricks the community has aside from moving out to a cabin in the woods.
I can’t really get away from road side advertising for now. Public sporting events are completely infected, and for the ads I am forced to see I try to make a conscious effort not to buy their goods or services. I won’t subscribe to a streaming service if they have a sub+ad tier, if they’re separate free with ads or sub no ads I’ll support it.
Not really for any moral stance, but ad blockers are good at avoiding malware and some services are basically broken if you have to wait for an ad network, and I just feel mentally healthier in general without the extra propaganda.
No tips for physical ads, but you can set up a pi hole and route your home internet through it.
One thing which has drastically helped me, if pihole is not an option, is to use Mullvad’s DNS on my phone. It helps a lot:
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
On android you can set up a custom DNS by going to: settings > network & internet > private DNS Or settings > network & internet > advanced > private DNS.
Browsing the web outside of my house now is horrendous. Pihole was the single best addition to my home network.
Does this work to stop ads on the Roku Youtube app?
Another vote for pi hole. It’s really great, whenever I’m browsing the Internet outside my house it realize how pervasive ads are.