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Seems to me this functionality could be wrapped up in a web proxy. The proxy can pretend to allow all the ads, and simply drop them on the way to clients. Of course this doesn't deal with the issue of ads soaking up a bunch of bandwidth.

I get tired of installing ad blockers on every machine/device in the house, and on some machines use multiple different browsers -- I'm suffering from blocker installation fatigue.

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> I get tired of installing ad blockers on every machine/device in the house, and on some machines use multiple different browsers -- I'm suffering from blocker installation fatigue.

If you run dnsmasq, you can block [1] a lot of ads for your entire house at once through DNS.

1: https://www.debian-administration.org/article/535/Blocking_a...

There's also Pi Hole, which you setup on a raspberry pi. Which is nice because you can leave it on all day. Where as at night when I shut down my desktop but might be using my phone or a tablet.

https://pi-hole.net/

This looks awesome, but is there a way to bypass this from the browser? Occasionally, I give in and disable ad block if I really want to see something.

Thanks for the link.

>The proxy can pretend to allow all the ads, and simply drop them on the way to clients.

Look into setting up a Squid node for your home network and run adblock in the ACL rules.

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