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[eybic]

I have AdBlock and Ghostery running on Chrome on my PC and see no ads at all.

[hyphen]

thebraketester said:

daddy cool said:

These ads are doing my head in - get rid of them!

[shakotan]

thebraketester said:

Get a better ad blocker.

Having read further into the thread and taken some of the advice offered, AdBlock Plus now removes the offending content.

[Monkeylegend]

shakotan said:

Adblockers don't remove it.

I have AdBlocker on my PC (and active for Pistonheads site) and it still shows the Sponsored Content.

Have you followed the advice given in this thread re unchecking "allow acceptable ads" in Adblock Plus. This works for me just fine, no ads and no sponsored st anywhere.

[Funk]

Monkeylegend said:

shakotan said:

Adblockers don't remove it.

I have AdBlocker on my PC (and active for Pistonheads site) and it still shows the Sponsored Content.

Have you followed the advice given in this thread re unchecking "allow acceptable ads" in Adblock Plus. This works for me just fine, no ads and no sponsored st anywhere.

uBlock Origin is the one to use.

[S6PNJ]

Funk said:

If anyone needs to block it on Android without root, install Blokada. Works across all apps by creating a VPN loop-back for unwanted requests/apps:

Not working for me! I've downloaded it, switched it on, but I'm still getting Sponsored content on my android phone. How do I get rid of this crap?

[thebraketester]

^^^ adguard

[RobDickinson]

S6PNJ said:

Funk said:

If anyone needs to block it on Android without root, install Blokada. Works across all apps by creating a VPN loop-back for unwanted requests/apps:

Not working for me! I've downloaded it, switched it on, but I'm still getting Sponsored content on my android phone. How do I get rid of this crap?

Reboot phone? Do you have the lock icon in the top?

[Funk]

S6PNJ said:

Not working for me! I've downloaded it, switched it on, but I'm still getting Sponsored content on my android phone. How do I get rid of this crap?

Samsung phone? It didn't work on a couple of them when tried. Works perfectly on my Pixel 2 XL though.

[RobDickinson]

fine on my stock s7 edge

[S6PNJ]

It's a Doogee X5 pro, yes the lock is at the top of the screen, no I've not tried rebooting but will try that now.

Do I have to configure it to block the PH sponsored content?

Nope, still happening after a re-boot (yes I've still got the key in the top bar). My Android ver is 5.1

Edited by S6PNJ on Friday 27th April 11:06

[thetapeworm]

S6PNJ said:

Funk said:

If anyone needs to block it on Android without root, install Blokada. Works across all apps by creating a VPN loop-back for unwanted requests/apps:

Not working for me! I've downloaded it, switched it on, but I'm still getting Sponsored content on my android phone. How do I get rid of this crap?

Under the "Default DNS" icon make sure you have selected "AdGuard DNS"

[pits]

Just blocked them all, not sure if its more or less irritating than the mobile site deciding that, even though you haven't been on a post before, it's going to get you involved in page 49, because that's when you last visited, top work on that one.

[S6PNJ]

Thanks, it now appears to be working but as the sponsored content doesn't appear immediately, I'll give it a few mins etc.

Why couldn't / can't I just use the AdGuard DNS settings on my router as this will block for all devices? I realise this won't work on my phone if I'm not on my home network but as most of my phone based PH browsing is at home, that's not much of a worry for me. I'm already running uBlock Origin on my Win10 devices which seems to filter out most/all crap happily!

[Mr Happy]

S6PNJ said:

Thanks, it now appears to be working but as the sponsored content doesn't appear immediately, I'll give it a few mins etc.

Why couldn't / can't I just use the AdGuard DNS settings on my router as this will block for all devices? I realise this won't work on my phone if I'm not on my home network but as most of my phone based PH browsing is at home, that's not much of a worry for me. I'm already running uBlock Origin on my Win10 devices which seems to filter out most/all crap happily!

You probably can, but that would mean doing all of your lookups via AdGuard's servers.

Although not as easy, you could use a Raspberry Pi as a PiHole, use that as your router DNS, and allow it to do forward lookups to Google or Cloudflare (even your ISP's DNS if you like).

https://pi-hole.net/

[S6PNJ]

Mr Happy said:

Although not as easy, you could use a Raspberry Pi as a PiHole, use that as your router DNS, and allow it to do forward lookups to Google or Cloudflare (even your ISP's DNS if you like).

https://pi-hole.net/

Yup, I have a RaspPi - was considering buying a HiFiBerry to have a play with DACs - wonder if I could combine the 2 tasks on the same Pi .......

[Mr Happy]

S6PNJ said:

Mr Happy said:

Although not as easy, you could use a Raspberry Pi as a PiHole, use that as your router DNS, and allow it to do forward lookups to Google or Cloudflare (even your ISP's DNS if you like).

https://pi-hole.net/

Yup, I have a RaspPi - was considering buying a HiFiBerry to have a play with DACs - wonder if I could combine the 2 tasks on the same Pi .......

You should be able to, worst case is that the hifiberry uses a webserver for it's interface so it might need a bit of reconfiguration to run on a different port or vice versa with the pihole.

A way to test would be to get the hifiberry set up, then image the SD card and install the pihole. If it becomes unworkably broken, just restore the image and you're back to a working hifiberry install.

[valiant]

thebraketester said:

^^^ adguard

Added this to my iPhone and no more ads! Thanks to the poster who suggested it - works great.

I've always tolerated a few ads here and there as I'm aware that it pays the bills but this sponsored content tipped me over the edge. If PH has reduced itself to whoring itself out to any and all advertisers who want to drop a few quid on here regardless of how it affects the end user then fk 'em, if PH fails then it fails. My moral compass is clear...

[pidsy]

I wonder what they paid for the privilege of posting the worlds sttist adverts.

[Funk]

pidsy said:

I wonder what they paid for the privilege of posting the worlds sttist adverts.

And does anyone click that crap? I'd be fascinated to know the click-through rates (and the subsequent bounce rate/length of the page visit which is what actually matters more, ie. not someone who clicked it accidentally then clicking 'back').