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.
I used pihole and it works, but there is management you need to do and it’s mostly just for devices using your home router.
If you don’t feel tech savvy or just don’t want to deal with managing one more thing in your life, I’d suggest NextDNS. It’s pihole as a service, basically free (first 300,000 queries every month use your custom filtering free), or unlimited queries with filtering for $20/year. They also make it easy to set up on your mobile devices, so you also benefit from low-level ad and tracker blocking on cell networks.