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I run a pair of pi-hole DNS servers, and see few (if any) ads on any of my devices. They update their block lists on a regular basis so it's always up-to-date.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 3-Jan-22 9:07am.
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I run the pi-hole as well, but a lot of the ad files it depends upon haven't been updated in a while. Still works great though.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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if you turn on automatic updates, it will periodically update the files.
On my primary DNS, I have over 3 million blocked domains. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 3-Jan-22 9:36am.
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Half of the adlists on my Group Management page don't exist anymore and those are the ones that came bundled with pi-hole.
Did you add any lists to the list of lists that didn't come with pi-hole?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yeah, but I forgot which ones. I couldn't do the youtube ones because that caused youtube to stop working at all.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Well said. To the OP:
If your app provides value, said value will be completely undermined by embedding ads. People resort to ad blockers for a reason.
If you really think your app has value, sell it.
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most people here in CP are 1000% against any form of advertising or malware. You are not going to find much support here in trying to use this tool.
Also, I am not sure this is the forum for this post.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: most people here in CP are 1000% against any form of advertising
I wouldn't agree there. There are two ways for sites to support themselves - ads or subscriptions (==paywalls). Ads like the ones that appear on CodeProject are no problem; it's the ones that are always in your face that give ads a bad name.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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fair point. yes ads that aren't too intrusive and aren't full of malware are ok. like in magazines
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I'd go with a bitcoin trader.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Instead of monetizing with ads, which is evil, a security risk, and everyone will hate you, you charge a monthly subscription or a nominal fee after a trial period? any business model other than using ads for revenue.
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I too was wondering how to monetize my (upcoming) app, while at the same time make it fully available to the users.
I do not like trials because they are time limited, which I find stressful and problematic.
In the end my plan is to have a little 7 seconds countdown on every save file operation, with a link to "how to upgrade / pay"
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Yes, I realize ads are not a good way to monetize since most users block the ads. And Google search only shows one prominent company that provides ads service for desktop apps does not leave much confidence for me (meaning the ads market is small for desktop apps).
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I've decided to upgrade the desktop with a new motherboard, processor, and RAM, and start fresh with a clean Win 11 install* (hence the upgrade, the current desktop isn't compatible as it doesn't have TPM).
But this time ... I want to split OS, apps, and data rather more. So I've also ordered a new SDD (480GB) to go with the existing 1TB SSD and the 1TB HDD. At the moment, OS and apps are on the SSD, data is HDD, so the idea this time is the 480 for OS only, the 1TB for apps only, and the HDD for data.
That's close to what I had last time but it became something of a mess because apps don't always "play nice" and stick data wherever the heck they want.
Anyone know if it's possible to tell Windows that "this disk is for you, and you only"?
* Not because its that great, but because it's "OK, pretty much" and it'll be forced on me at some point. So rather than a cluttered upgrade install, I'd rather kick it into the weeds and do a clean first install. I suspect my current one started life as Win 7 ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Not as such as far as I know.
In practice, when running windows I've found that your best bet is to have a system drive large enough to store all your programs *and* local or roaming app data + misc garbage in your user folder that windows won't let you move.
Then remap Documents/Videos/Music/Pictures/Downloads to locations on your secondary drive (I usually mirror the Users directory structure from the system drive onto my D: drive.)
For me personally to be comfortable, I do not run less than 2TB on my system drive. Things are just better that way. The cost in terms of downtime and headaches to upgrade the size of a system drive cannot be justified when a 2TB NVMe stick is about $200
It's easy enough to upgrade the secondaries, even after the fact.
You're asking for trouble going any other route, in my experience. Maybe not today, but down the road, at least if you build 10 year systems.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Quote: Anyone know if it's possible to tell Windows that "this disk is for you, and you only"?
What about controlling it through permissions?
But I suspect %appdata% may not play nicely.
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It my experience it doesn't.
Your only hope is possibly NTFS symbolic links, but that can run you into trouble if one of your drives goes offline.
It's not worth it. Get a bigger system drive.
Real programmers use butterflies
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yacCarsten wrote: What about controlling it through permissions?
Then you'll end up with failures and things will immediately stop. Windows unfortunately doesn't try Path A, then Path B if the first failed, then Path C, etc.
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Not as you think you could do...
Found a good description here:
Can I install programs on a D drive? - Quora[^]
Q: Can programs be installed on a D drive?
Some can. Some can be partially installed on D:. Some cannot be installed on D:.
1. Programs that are totally self contained, including all their library functions that are statically linked and built in to the application. These programs do not follow a normal Windows installation. They can be copied onto any locally accessible drive space including USB pendrives, and executed directly from there. Uninstallation is simply a case of deleting the associated file(s).
2. Other programs that use a normal Windows installation may allow the main program components and data files to be installed on D:, but dynamic link libraries (DLLs) and various settings in the Windows registry will be on C:.
3. Some of these programs using Windows installation may not offer the option of where to install the programs.
Programs in group 1 can be copied or moved around freely. Programs in group 2 that allow some of their content to be in a user defined can have this content relocated, but only by uninstalling and reinstalling. Programs in group 3 generally cannot be moved even within C:.
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My experience with Windows is install apps with their default settings - upgrades tend to break otherwise. Then you can save the data wherever you'd like, but you may have to override the save dialog defaults to do so.
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As you told - some apps write info where they want. So even you employ all settings to block writing from outside the OS to your new SSD it will probably break several applications... And it will be Office and VS to first break...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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When you install your applications, you can choose the drive and folder instead of accepting the defaults. That being said, Visual Studio has to be on the same drive as the OS else it won't work correctly. I'm not sure if this is still the case. I usually install those seldom-used applications on my HDD.
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I am not sure if that works.
I mean, yup you could do that by hand with all your data but when it comes to visual studio or any other MS Software i guess they only install on C.
At least that's what i tried on my system and visual studio filled up my tiny os ssd. But the games and data are all split across the other 5 disks and ssds.
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Paul,
If I were assigned the task of protecting your drive I would:
1.) Install Windows 11 Enterprise[^]
2.) Install all your development tools.
3.) Enable the Unified Write Filter[^] on the system partition.
This will block ALL changes to the drive, including changes made by Windows Update. In order to update the operating system or install new software you would need to enter service mode[^]. You may also need to whitelist the registry files and other locations.
Siemens has some good documentation[^] about how they are using this feature to protect their industrial products.
Non-Enterprise 'Retail' versions of Windows are governed by a different license[^] and you have agreed that updates are managed by Microsoft. This UWF feature is unavailable to the average user.
Good Luck,
-David Delaune
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Hmm. That's probably more extreme than I wanted - this is a working development machine, after all.
Oh well ... the new SSD can be OS and "must install on C" apps, and I'll just discourage the other apps as best I can.
Only reason I wanted to do it was so it was simpler to update with a clean install from time to time. You know how messy they get after a while ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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