Hi, I was wondering, is it useful to use multiple adblockers in a row?
I don't mean 4 or five 5 browser extensions more like a chain of adblockers, one on every passing network point.
Adblock DNS -> Pi-Hole -> Linux System with hBlock -> Browser with uBlock Origin
I have only a 10 Mbit Internet connection, so I fear that this would slowdown pageloads to much. On the other hand there are filterlists that uBlock can use where as Pi-Hole can't.
So what combination does make sense (is efficient in every aspect) and what do you use?
Your solution isn’t going to hurt anything. It might be overkill, but it will definitely work.
Ultimately, I think you only really need 2 of the solutions you mentioned.
- A network wide DNS blocker, such as Pi-hole, to catch the majority of ads.
- A browser ad blocker, such as uBlock Origin, for the rest.
One problem is... when you want to allow a blocked domain. It can be time consuming and confusing trying to track down which one of those things is actually stopping you.
An adblock dns, something like nextdns, or others won't do anything to harm you Internet speed. They are just resolving a dns query, and saying nothing or no to a blocked query.
It can catch what cannot be blocked by an adblockers on the device, because outside of the website or something.
I don't know about pihole tho.
I'm using pi-hole + uBlock origin.
Adblock DNS, Pi-Hole, hBlock - these three do essentially same thing but at different layers - blocking DNS requests based on blacklists. I'm not familiar with hBlock, but I assume blacklists on each of these 3 are very similar. Using all three doesn't slow down your internet connection much, unless your pihole server is underpowered. You can drop pi-hole from the mix if you are not using it's other features (statistics, local DNS, etc). hBlock looks nice, and should add zero latency, but works only for local machine. So you still need network-wide blocker. Make sure you set your DNS on router, so all devices would get protection.
uBlock Origin is smarter than simple DNS blocking, but protects only your browser sessions.
DNS blocking doesn't affect speed, but anything that blocks elements inside a page or a script running in the background does. But it shouldn't really be noticeable from the internet perspective.
I use a few of these and I have no issues with internet speed. I can stream HD video while uploading large files no problem. So I'd bet you'd be just fine, probably won't even notice unless it's faster. But I wasn't aware of hBlock, I'll have to look into it.
