Should the DNS block ads / How intrusive are ads on console browsers?

[VGMoose]

I'm considering implementing full ad blocking of popular ad domains at the DNS level due to potential lag concerns.

Please report here if any sites that you frequently visit are really slow / bad with advertising on the Switch/PS5/etc!

If there are some sites that have a lot of ads, I'll try out blocking them for a bit, and then you can report back if the site gets better or worse.

[HexagonZRU]

Switch is bad with ads because you can't close them, also it sometimes lags the switch.

[Todoroki]

if u could do ad blockers it would be great... they are very intrusive on my end

[Alastor]

@VGMoose yes its also annoying and does cause lag

[VGMoose]

Okay! I'm going to add a bunch of known ad domains to be blocked on 45.55.112.11 (bdns US). I'll post here again when I do this, and I'd appreciate it if others could try it out and report back before I roll it out onto 45.55.142.122 (sbru) and 46.101.65.164 (bdns UK).

[VGMoose]

Alright, that was easier than expected, so starting now, if you use 45.55.112.11 (the BrowseDNS IP) while browsing the internet, there should no longer be ads.

Currently, using the following resource for the list of blocked domains: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

[VGMoose]

@pumaroar1 @Alastor @Todoroki Anybody try this out? Is it helpful / does it reduce the lag?

[Alastor]

@VGMoose YES TY