So like the tittle says. I have a pihole running at home which blocks loads of ads and also the google add service. Which worked flawless for me and my family. But recently I got a load of complains that not a single link was working. This is odd. and i go and look at my dads browser and since about i week 99% of all search results are sponsored links. What is also strange is that it are about 5 to 6 links per page. almost exclusively the sponsored links. Now i never have this issue not even when using google.com But i am using firefox Which does not seem to get so many sponsored links. And shows a load more results per page on google.com.

Any idea what is going on here and if their is a fix? I get that my family does not want to make the switch to firefox. How unfortunate that is.

  • Devgard@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    2 years ago

    instead of a pihole try ublock origin chrome extension for ad blocking, although it might not work for long because of future changes

    • kylian0087@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      This has no effect in this matter. as 99% of the results are sponsored links aka ads. That is the issue. Ublock would remove them and then he only has like 1 result on a page. I use both pihole and ublock. (ublock was disabled for testing purposes)