Kinda found this funny and informative. I have a couple of Pi-hole servers for DNS caching and forwarding with ad blocking.
In the screen shot below everything with a name is a Linux device. Everything with an plain IP is a phone except the device at the top.
Its the wifes Windows 10 laptop. Chatty much? Not exactly a surprise but still…
ad blocking
I don’t get this. You’re essentially preventing a company (or individual) from passively generating income based on your page views. I understand the whole malicious ads and invasive ads thing, but when it’s just a little sidebar ad and you’re blocking it, you’re preventing the site owner from recouping the cost of running the site.
Yeah, Windows is shit, this is old news.
I subscribe to services. Like my news site and this site.
That’s totally fair.
I wasn’t trying to be argumentative and realize it kinda came off that way.
No worries. 
Should be more extreme.
Turn off all Javascript where possible 
I’m of two minds here. First, these damn sites could be more efficient if they’d reduce the overhead. Bryan Lunduke has a great video about how the WWW sucks.
EDIT: Forgot my other mind. Second, site owners shouldn’t be rewarded for having a shitty site, so I’ll disable all their bloat on my side.
The Pi-hole server is actually fairly conservative in what it blocks. Only 3.6% of domains for my usage. I expected it to be higher.
Slap on any browser based ad-blocker and it still blocks more domains.
I guess this is branching back off topic, but yeah windows cant get enough of the internet. How much trash is running on that computer?
However, the advert thing is a legitimate argument, most websites have good intentions. But as we know, advertisers and the advertising networks do not have the best intentions. It is a dog eat dog world, and they will do what they need to to get adverts into your eyes/ears.
I use various forms of DNS and content blocking down to running ublock origin, and will white list domains if the page does not function and I need to use it, or they ask nicely for adverts. Sometimes I immediately regret that decision, and never go back to that page.
Given the malvertising practices, it is my default mode of operation to block as much as possible, and I don’t feel too bad about it. I feel I have to operate that way to remain somewhat safe on the internet, lest my computer have a meltdown or spectre gets in there.
Interesting. I’m tempted to give this a try then. I wonder if they just design it to mostly block invasive/malicious ads.
Well, there is windows 
That’s very true and a good way to look at it. I do whitelist sites I’d like to support.
Really very little. The wife is not tech savvy. It is just the OS (which makes it worse) and Office 2016 I got through my employer for £20 or so. She does everything in a browser. Maybe I should have got her to Chromebook instead.
Hindsight eh?
If it is a stock install of windows 10, it probably comes with a plethora of metro apps pinging the internet all the time, gathering advertising metrics.
You could try running O&O Shutup10 to clean it up a bit, but if she is happy with it, then probably just leave it as is.
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
I have no experience with Chromebooks, never played with one. They seem like a good idea though, and there isn’t much you cannot do on the internet these days.
While you’re at it, disable css. And html.
Just cut the ethernet cable, that’s the safest way to browse the net.
Curl pages, strip the tags with regex. Does it sound like I know what I am talking about?
I’m willing to bet most of that is Skype.
im confused, where are the downvotes??
