Back before web browsers had ad-blocking extensions, we had programs like Web Washer. It was a local, ad-blocking proxy program that you ran along side your browser. To use it, you just changed your browser's network settings to point to Web Washer. And the ads would be filtered before they even reached your browser. It would be no problem to implement this again.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 19 points 10 months ago

PiHole is the most common way I hear of network-level ad blocking these days.

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