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[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago* (2 children) Popups suck. You should get firefox and ublock origin if you are on mobile. Otherwise, just get an adblocker if you are on desktop. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) Double it up with a pihole dns https://pi-hole.net/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago Yeah which makes sense. If you don't use custom dns then it'll use the dns from the VPN provider. It's more secure by default. 👍 Glad you figured that out. permalink fedilink source parent [–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) If your access point supports DD-WRT you can also integrate it there without needing another device. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Join church of OpenWRT permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children) I left that church after my last wrt router that was advertised as being supported wound up in fact not being "completely" supported. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't think you should be soured away from openwrt completely because its built for specific use cases with specifc routers And open source coders can't reasonably create individual openwrt firmware versions for every router out there that quickly permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago No it was a linksys issue. But honestly I just replaced it was an Asus router and called it a day. It's a nice concept and works well for some people's use cases. It's not difficult to implement but to me wasn't justified. permalink fedilink source parent [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Can you provide more info what router, what features and from where info? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) One of the linksys routers that was advertised to support it, but the radio firmware was not officially supported and I had a lot of wireless connection issues so I replaced it. Info from official openwrt website. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Mediatek? Certanly not Atheros. What model? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) AC3200 I believe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent [–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago I'm genuinely impressed, even with no advert blockers, I haven't seen a popup in, oh, over a decade now. Browsers block popups by default these days unless you specifically authorise them for a particular website, I suspect that's why. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) Double it up with a pihole dns https://pi-hole.net/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago Yeah which makes sense. If you don't use custom dns then it'll use the dns from the VPN provider. It's more secure by default. 👍 Glad you figured that out. permalink fedilink source parent [–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) If your access point supports DD-WRT you can also integrate it there without needing another device. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Join church of OpenWRT permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children) I left that church after my last wrt router that was advertised as being supported wound up in fact not being "completely" supported. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't think you should be soured away from openwrt completely because its built for specific use cases with specifc routers And open source coders can't reasonably create individual openwrt firmware versions for every router out there that quickly permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago No it was a linksys issue. But honestly I just replaced it was an Asus router and called it a day. It's a nice concept and works well for some people's use cases. It's not difficult to implement but to me wasn't justified. permalink fedilink source parent [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Can you provide more info what router, what features and from where info? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) One of the linksys routers that was advertised to support it, but the radio firmware was not officially supported and I had a lot of wireless connection issues so I replaced it. Info from official openwrt website. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Mediatek? Certanly not Atheros. What model? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) AC3200 I believe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago Yeah which makes sense. If you don't use custom dns then it'll use the dns from the VPN provider. It's more secure by default. 👍 Glad you figured that out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago Yeah which makes sense. If you don't use custom dns then it'll use the dns from the VPN provider. It's more secure by default. 👍 Glad you figured that out. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) If your access point supports DD-WRT you can also integrate it there without needing another device. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Join church of OpenWRT permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children) I left that church after my last wrt router that was advertised as being supported wound up in fact not being "completely" supported. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't think you should be soured away from openwrt completely because its built for specific use cases with specifc routers And open source coders can't reasonably create individual openwrt firmware versions for every router out there that quickly permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago No it was a linksys issue. But honestly I just replaced it was an Asus router and called it a day. It's a nice concept and works well for some people's use cases. It's not difficult to implement but to me wasn't justified. permalink fedilink source parent [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Can you provide more info what router, what features and from where info? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) One of the linksys routers that was advertised to support it, but the radio firmware was not officially supported and I had a lot of wireless connection issues so I replaced it. Info from official openwrt website. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Mediatek? Certanly not Atheros. What model? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) AC3200 I believe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Join church of OpenWRT permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children) I left that church after my last wrt router that was advertised as being supported wound up in fact not being "completely" supported. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't think you should be soured away from openwrt completely because its built for specific use cases with specifc routers And open source coders can't reasonably create individual openwrt firmware versions for every router out there that quickly permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago No it was a linksys issue. But honestly I just replaced it was an Asus router and called it a day. It's a nice concept and works well for some people's use cases. It's not difficult to implement but to me wasn't justified. permalink fedilink source parent [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Can you provide more info what router, what features and from where info? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) One of the linksys routers that was advertised to support it, but the radio firmware was not officially supported and I had a lot of wireless connection issues so I replaced it. Info from official openwrt website. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Mediatek? Certanly not Atheros. What model? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) AC3200 I believe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children) I left that church after my last wrt router that was advertised as being supported wound up in fact not being "completely" supported. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't think you should be soured away from openwrt completely because its built for specific use cases with specifc routers And open source coders can't reasonably create individual openwrt firmware versions for every router out there that quickly permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago No it was a linksys issue. But honestly I just replaced it was an Asus router and called it a day. It's a nice concept and works well for some people's use cases. It's not difficult to implement but to me wasn't justified. permalink fedilink source parent [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Can you provide more info what router, what features and from where info? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) One of the linksys routers that was advertised to support it, but the radio firmware was not officially supported and I had a lot of wireless connection issues so I replaced it. Info from official openwrt website. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Mediatek? Certanly not Atheros. What model? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) AC3200 I believe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I don't think you should be soured away from openwrt completely because its built for specific use cases with specifc routers And open source coders can't reasonably create individual openwrt firmware versions for every router out there that quickly permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago No it was a linksys issue. But honestly I just replaced it was an Asus router and called it a day. It's a nice concept and works well for some people's use cases. It's not difficult to implement but to me wasn't justified. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago No it was a linksys issue. But honestly I just replaced it was an Asus router and called it a day. It's a nice concept and works well for some people's use cases. It's not difficult to implement but to me wasn't justified. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Can you provide more info what router, what features and from where info? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) One of the linksys routers that was advertised to support it, but the radio firmware was not officially supported and I had a lot of wireless connection issues so I replaced it. Info from official openwrt website. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Mediatek? Certanly not Atheros. What model? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) AC3200 I believe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) One of the linksys routers that was advertised to support it, but the radio firmware was not officially supported and I had a lot of wireless connection issues so I replaced it. Info from official openwrt website. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Mediatek? Certanly not Atheros. What model? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) AC3200 I believe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child) Mediatek? Certanly not Atheros. What model? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) AC3200 I believe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) AC3200 I believe permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34 It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643 Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code. https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely. Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all. Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago I'm genuinely impressed, even with no advert blockers, I haven't seen a popup in, oh, over a decade now. Browsers block popups by default these days unless you specifically authorise them for a particular website, I suspect that's why. permalink fedilink source parent