(PENDING)redirecting to findingresult.com?

[rampageturke]

Exactly why I use an adblocker, unfortunately harder to do on Mobile or I would there too.

[AW111]

These advert related issues seem to occur far more often on PH than any other site I visit - maybe Haymarket owns shares in the adblock industry, and this is a clever ploy to get us all using adblockers!

Seriously, PH, I understand you need tha advert revenue, but can't you find an ad-slinging company with some idea of quality control?

Genuine question - do you have any stats on the percentage of users running ad blockers? Is it increasing?

[crmcatee]

I got my hands on a Raspberry Pi, installed Dietpi on it, then installed Pihole running as a localised DNS.

Blocks all ads on my network from all my devices rather than adblockers on individual machines.

Makes Pistonheads pleasant rather than the ad invested revenue stream that it's turned into.

[AndrewEH1]

crmcatee said:

I got my hands on a Raspberry Pi, installed Dietpi on it, then installed Pihole running as a localised DNS.

Blocks all ads on my network from all my devices rather than adblockers on individual machines.

Makes Pistonheads pleasant rather than the ad invested revenue stream that it's turned into.

Does that slow down the bandwidth noticeably?

Sounds like a good little project!

[crmcatee]

No - works a treat Any requests for any of the listed ad sites (currently blocking 94, 479 ad domains) are redirected to local host.

Therefor it speeds up webpage loading as they're not waiting on remote ad servers to respond (or in PH's case - to redirect you somewhere they don't have control over).

Currently just under 10% of my network traffic today have been ad orientated.


If you want ad free mobiles when you're out and about - setup OpenVPN on your mobile and run it on the PI at the same time - connect to your PI and go back out your own network ad free. Little bit slower but it's ad free

Edited by crmcatee on Monday 31st October 15:48

[BaronVonVaderham]

Still happening to me!!!

iPhone 6, all caches cleared

http://midnightad.xyz/790/YTozOntzOjEwOiJyZXF1ZXN0...

[fat80b]

BaronVonVaderham said:

Still happening to me!!!

iPhone 6, all caches cleared
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Same here - It is beyond ridiculous now - Surely just turn the adverts off while you figure out how to fix it -

I hope no-one has gone home til its fixed - I know in my place, people would be working night and day with such a customer visible bug.

Bob

[4Q]

Happening to me too this afternoon, made it impossible to use the site.

[Mr Will]

AndrewEH1 said:

crmcatee said:

I got my hands on a Raspberry Pi, installed Dietpi on it, then installed Pihole running as a localised DNS.

Blocks all ads on my network from all my devices rather than adblockers on individual machines.

Makes Pistonheads pleasant rather than the ad invested revenue stream that it's turned into.

Does that slow down the bandwidth noticeably?

Sounds like a good little project!

Doesn't slow anything down at all - the Pi only deals with DNS lookups (i.e. translating the web address to an actual computer somewhere in the world). All the actual traffic still goes direct from your PC to the server and back again.

ELI5 example;

1. You type in http://www.pistonheads.com and press enter
2. The Pi receives a request from your computer saying "where can I find www.pistonheads.com"?
3. The Pi responds with "176.34.239.188" (The IP address of the pistonheads server)
4. Your computer sends a request directly to 176.34.239.188 asking for the homepage
5. The server at 176.34.239.188 sends the content straight back to your PC.

If you didn't have the Pi set up, there would still be another computer somewhere providing this translation - normally your ISP or one of the big providers. The only difference is that when your computer asks the PiHole for the location of www.advertprovider.com, the Pi responds with "Does not exist" rather than giving your computer the information that it needs to load the advert.

[xjay1337]

I've had this several times today.

Ficking annoying

I was on the project cars weekly time trial thread.

Redirected me to
(Brought up google chrome warning).
Browsing on my phone

SORT IT OUT.

http://jkgvephmhg.xyz/73/f142d51901674563b1226ab1f...

[Terzo123]

Thought it was just me. Redirected several times over the past 48 hours. Very annoying and not particularly professional.

[AW111]

Terzo123 said:

Thought it was just me. Redirected several times over the past 48 hours. Very annoying and not particularly professional.

Professional?

You think this forum's advert pimps are professional?

I have some pity for James Drake et al, but it is clear they have bugger all influence over the advertising side, and no budget for fixing things.