That’s not an excuse to run applications like that
At best, they’re useless, typically, they track your browsing behavior, at worst, they inject harmful content into e. g. websites you visit.
This is a pihole/Adguard home type service with centralized blocklists. No more, no less.
As far as I am aware “they” cannot inject anything into any website. That would require some pretty nifty mitm attack.
I have not personally reviewed all of the code, but the people making AsusWRT-merlin that this router runs have a pretty good idea about it. I will let RMerlin speak on this issue, knowing more about this than myself.
It is definitely something to be aware of and consider for yourself. But just maybe people have some knee jerk reactions sometimes that are not helpful.
Asus had some different ideas about libgen.rs 😯
Yo control your router lol (freshtomato or openwrt or something might be good options)
Seconding the recommendation for OpenWRT - I’ve been using it for years on my routers.
I loved AsusWRT-Merlin back when I used an Asus router.
It’s running Merlin, works pretty well. Then again, all it does is NAT and DHCP (and apparently the parent control thing)
Why would you let Asus nanny you? They can’t even make hardware that doesn’t spontaneously break.
To be honest, that filter is so useless I didn’t even remember it was on. 😁 Can’t remember if it blocked anything else … ever
That’s not an excuse to run applications like that At best, they’re useless, typically, they track your browsing behavior, at worst, they inject harmful content into e. g. websites you visit.
Who’s excusing anything here?
This is a pihole/Adguard home type service with centralized blocklists. No more, no less.
As far as I am aware “they” cannot inject anything into any website. That would require some pretty nifty mitm attack.
I have not personally reviewed all of the code, but the people making AsusWRT-merlin that this router runs have a pretty good idea about it. I will let RMerlin speak on this issue, knowing more about this than myself.
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/384-6-now-sharing-data-to-trend-micro.48202/page-9#post-540572
It is definitely something to be aware of and consider for yourself. But just maybe people have some knee jerk reactions sometimes that are not helpful.
To be fair it might actually be possible to find smut there.
You’re probably correct. It’s the Internet. The Internet is for porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs
It is one of the rules I think, the 34th?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.