On 03/13/2017 02:46 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote:
> On 12/03/17 16:49, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
>
>> Have you considered rolling your own add-blocking with a list of
>> unwanted sites in /etc/hosts ?
>
> A bad idea, because your browser expects some sort of response.
> It's better to replace unwanted content with a small transparent gif.


I run one of these on my network at home:

Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
https://pi-hole.net/


Patrick