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Comment by pierrebarre | Hacker News Reader

Shameless plug: https://github.com/Barre/privaxy

It’s a proxy that does just this.

But with a big privacy risk if anyone ever gets their hands on the root CA (which I hope is generated fresh in every install).

Also, Android blocks user-installed CAs by default now, apps have to opt in to accept user-added ones. That makes it pretty useless. Not sure how iOS deals with this.

Blocking ads on mobile has been a non-supportes use-case for a while.

If you really want to get rid of ads on android, rooting enables you to patch system SSL routines to disable certificate pinning and more. IOS is an apple product.

This seems like just the thing to finally get adblocking in Steam's integrated browser.

wait... you are using a site that advertises and sells things to disable adverts? I am not following the use case for ublock here?

Hm? No, they're probably using the integrated browser to browse the internet while being ingame. They're not talking about the store itself.

Could this be used per client ip or time frame? Thinking about children filter etc

MITM for HTTPS means you'll need to set up each machine with an additional cert. And for this project, you need to configure each machine to funnel through the proxy anyways.

https://github.com/Barre/privaxy#local-system-configuration

Personally, I use NextDNS which allows you to block categories, IPs, and use blocklists.

It's set up on the network level, and I have two separate NextDNS "networks" configured. One for the entire network, one for "privileged" users/devices.

Thank you! Also, do we have the same last name?

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