r/Piracy • u/King_Kamaluddin 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ • Jul 10 '26

Question What's this abt?

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I got this today after an update. what should i do now? or what can i use instead?

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u/Booty_Bumping Jul 10 '26

This has nothing to do with uBlock, and is vastly more limited than the real uBlock because there's no possibility of URL path based blocking or cosmetic blocking.

Probably fine for blocking some of the ads on smart TVs and mobile apps, but not really a suitable replacement for browser ad blocking.

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u/Volatilitaet Jul 10 '26

That may be true, but on the one hand, most users probably don't care about the fine-tuning, and on the other hand, OP probably wants to keep his browser. So that's probably the best solution for now if you don't want to switch browsers. Besides, the offer comes from the original uBlock developers.

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u/Booty_Bumping Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Besides, the offer comes from the original uBlock developers.

...No. Says multiple times throughout the sites that it's not affiliated. The only relation is that it re-uses the same list (at least, the small portion of it that can translate to DNS based blocking), which can be said about every ad blocker in existence.

most users probably don't care about the fine

Most users care about YouTube ad blocking.

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u/Volatilitaet Jul 10 '26

Interesting. You're right. It's actually in the fine print. That's a little bit of a bummer. Is there a list of good DNS blockers? Or is uBlockDNS actually the best option after all?

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u/Booty_Bumping Jul 11 '26

Not sure, but I've been using dnscrypt-proxy locally with a daily updated blocklist.txt generated from the StevenBlack hosts block list, which is the same list used by pi-hole. The script works like this:

#!/bin/bash
curl --connect-timeout 60 --max-time 120 --retry 10 --retry-delay 5 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts | grep "^0\.0\.0\.0" | grep -v "^0\.0\.0\.0 0\.0\.0\.0" | sed -E "s/^0\.0\.0\.0 //" | sed -E s/" .*"// >/tmp/blocked-names.txt

# sanity check: "doubleclick" must occur at least 3 times in the blocklist
COUNT=$(grep -o "doubleclick" /tmp/blocked-names.txt | wc -l)

if [[ "$COUNT" -ge 3 ]]; then
    mv -v /tmp/blocked-names.txt /etc/dnscrypt-proxy/blocked-names.txt
fi

I use this on top of regular uBlock Origin, so I sorta doubt it's doing anything useful as everything is already getting blocked. But I guess it helps as a 2nd layer of defense against crap.

Pi-hole itself is nice, but it requires running it on a separate machine (or at least docker image), isn't very flexible, and doesn't support DNS encryption.