To be clear, I have to believe that's "2-4 minutes".
Paranoid much, tools exist and they are open source for all to inspect. Thankfully I dont have your problems LOL...
Do those two apps not overlap in what they do? I'm interested in trying one of these myself.To be clear, I have to believe that's "2-4 minutes".
PiHole is trivial to set up. I wanted to try AdGuard Home because it was referenced by a security blogger I was reading. Now I have both.
To be clear, I have to believe that's "2-4 minutes".
PiHole is trivial to set up. I wanted to try AdGuard Home because it was referenced by a security blogger I was reading. Now I have both.
As said if AdGuard was a bad actor it would be lit up like a Christmas tree across my systems. There is no perfect solution or you can just live with the ad's and suffer their poison. I dont have such problems as I have a tool that works for me...
part of the 25min is the setup, if you already have everything then yes typing that pihole install command is like 4min for everything
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That won't help with a phone, though; it's a Mac app. The issue is everyone needs to use either PiHole or AdGuard Home at the network layer, in order to protect themselves (at least at home). You'd be floored at all the junk these DNS blockers end up blocking.
Calling someone paranoid who is just cautious is a bit rude, don't you think? Just because YOU are satisfied with it and feel safe doesn't mean that others have to feel it that way.
As I mentioned before, there have been "holy" antimalware companies like Avira that have been praised into the heavens and back, who had also open source parts and betrayed their customers by bundling with crypto miners or AVAST, who secretly collected user data.
Let’s differentiate AdGuard vs. AdGuard Home (the PiHole alternative, no root certs).
Use what you want to use, equally one has to draw a line in the sand one way or the other unless you plan to be offline indefinitely. Any company could sell out or be forced to compel. AdGuard's extension works as advertised and to all intents and purposes the company is transparent.
Two articles I just remembered that you might be interested in:
"On your iPhone, you can now tap a button that says, “Ask app not to track.” But behind the scenes, some apps keep snooping anyway.
Say you open the app “Subway Surfers,” listed as one of the App Store’s “must-play” games. It asks if you’re okay with the app “tracking” you, a question iPhones started displaying in April as part of a privacy crackdown by Apple. Saying no is supposed to stop apps such as “Subway Surfers” and Facebook from learning about what you do in other apps and websites.
But something curious happens after you ask not to be tracked, according to an investigation by researchers at privacy software maker Lockdown and The Washington Post. “Subway Surfers” starts sending an outside ad company called Chartboost 29 very specific data points about your iPhone, including your Internet address, your free storage, your current volume level (to 3 decimal points) and even your battery level (to 15 decimal points). It’s the kind of unique data that could be used by advertisers to identify your iPhone, possibly letting them know what other apps you use or how to target you."
Analysis | When you ‘Ask app not to track,’ some iPhone apps keep snooping anyway
To test Apple’s newest privacy protections, we watched the data flow out of 10 popular apps. Some appeared to be “fingerprinting” phones, a more invasive form of tracking.
"It’s 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing?
Mine has been alarmingly busy. Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots of information about me to companies I’ve never heard of. Your iPhone probably is doing the same — and Apple could be doing more to stop it.
On a recent Monday night, a dozen marketing companies, research firms and other personal data guzzlers got reports from my iPhone. At 11:43 p.m., a company called Amplitude learned my phone number, email and exact location. At 3:58 a.m., another called Appboy got a digital fingerprint of my phone. At 6:25 a.m., a tracker called Demdex received a way to identify my phone and sent back a list of other trackers to pair up with.
And all night long, there was some startling behavior by a household name: Yelp. It was receiving a message that included my IP address -— once every five minutes."
Perspective | It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
We ran a privacy experiment to see how many hidden trackers are running from the apps on our iPhone. The tally is astounding.
Apple does and sells user data to Google for billions. First I ever do with a Mac is switch the default search engine.
Definitely a PITA to manage, yet clearly illustrates just how much user data Apple is grabbing without clear user consent...It's a specific-to-the-device-that-runs-Mac-OS firewall tool.
Bit of a PITA at times by virtue of its somewhat-excessive communicability, yet an extremely useful tool that allows one to monitor in&out net traffic on the device to which it is installed.
I give it a 9.3/10