How to install Adblock?

[equilon]

I don’t need something as advanced as Adguard Home. But I need Adblock functionality. As I know OWRT supports Adblock plugin. Can you please provide me information about how to install this?

[frollic]

Adblock vs adblock-fast vs adblock-lean

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Adblock-fast: ad-blocking service for dnsmasq, smartdns and unbound

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Adblock support thread

Did you use the package tcpdump-mini for traffic capturing? If so, please switch to the regular tcpdump package, it seems that the mini-variant no longer supports the "any" interface ...

[equilon]

@frollic thank you for your reply!

What is this? It is GUI?

[frollic]

yes, that's the webUI part.

[equilon]

So if I am installing Adblock I need to install WebUI separately to make it work?

[frollic]

you can probably work it out via cli too, but it'll take some extra time.

[equilon]

No no. I mean I need both of packages to have GUI? Or only one?

Will it work on Gl-Inet?

[frollic]

@equilon

No no. I mean I need both of packages to have GUI? Or only one?

you need the adblock package, and the luci package.

@equilon

Will it work on Gl-Inet?

if you're using gl.inet's openwrt, we can't tell, it's a black box for us.

[elbe1]

This is a pretty detailed tutotial how to install and configure Adblock in OpenWRT:

How to Set up AdBlock DNS Ad Blocking in OpenWRT