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Re: Mmm, Pi-hole

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Post by freehunter »

mikestew wrote: post #203
ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #81

My Pi-hole with updated block lists (blocking trackers as well as ads) sits at around 87.7% requests blocked, which is absolutely mind-blowingly ridiculous. I see absolutely no negative effects browsing like this. Everything I've come across still works fine. Even sites that detect uBlock Origin and tell me to disable it, will work with that disabled and Pi-hole still blocking the ads instead. I heavily believe we sh…

My Pi-hole with updated block lists (blocking trackers as well as ads) sits at around 87.7% requests blocked Where in THE hell are you going on the Internet? Wait, don't answer that. I only wonder because we sit at around 20-30% at our house (which is still ridiculous). But approaching 90%? Maybe I need to crank the blocklists up a notch, but I can't imagine even surfing porn sites all day that I could get anywhere n…

Ever visited Forbes or Business Insider? Easily 90% of those sites are third-party scripts served from other domains.

Re: Mmm, Pi-hole

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Post by freehunter »

jancsika wrote: post #218
badbug wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spoke directly with the pihole maintainers. They took a Hardline position that them blocking email from my city was the right thing to do because it used click tracking or some other metric gathering and was deemed a privacy risk. I understand the devotion to a cause but it was too myopic for me.

Don't they have some kind of whitelist you can use?

Yes, they do. This story is very inaccurate.

Re: Mmm, Pi-hole

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Post by badbug »

promofaux wrote: post #250
badbug wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spoke directly with the pihole maintainers. They took a Hardline position that them blocking email from my city was the right thing to do because it used click tracking or some other metric gathering and was deemed a privacy risk. I understand the devotion to a cause but it was too myopic for me.

As commented below, we don't actually maintain any of the lists, so that wasn't us you spoke to! You can configure the lists that you use to suit your needs. You can also whitelist any domains that you need. It's up to you what you ultimately block!

Yes, it was. In fact, I think it was you personally, lol.

Re: Mmm, Pi-hole

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Post by michaelmrose »

naravara wrote: post #289
NeedMoreTea wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I heavily believe we should be supporting creators As do I. There's two significant issues I have supporting most sites: 1. They provide only a subscription that is comparable cost to an old-media full subscription. Like most people in the Internet age I have a small number of main sources that I visit daily, and a much larger secondary tier where I may average one or two stories a week. Or they're the sites linked…

>There's no low user or micro transaction options for these, so I get a choice of pay say £10 a month or nothing, for a site I might be getting £1 or 10p a month "value" from. A "tip jar" or micropayment model to supplement subscriptions would be a great option. Unfortunately I think processing fees eat up a significant chunk of your take to the point where it's not really profitable to build a business model around…

It seems that these fees would be trivially avoidable by having one monthly transaction to the aggregator and one monthly transaction

Re: Mmm, Pi-hole

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Post by badbug »

freehunter wrote: post #302
jancsika wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't they have some kind of whitelist you can use?

Yes, they do. This story is very inaccurate.

You can whitelist but it isn't easy for non-technical users and becomes a huge chore.

And this story is 100% accurate. I'll try and find it.

Re: Mmm, Pi-hole

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Post by ansible »

michaelmrose wrote: post #304
naravara wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>There's no low user or micro transaction options for these, so I get a choice of pay say £10 a month or nothing, for a site I might be getting £1 or 10p a month "value" from. A "tip jar" or micropayment model to supplement subscriptions would be a great option. Unfortunately I think processing fees eat up a significant chunk of your take to the point where it's not really profitable to build a business model around…

It seems that these fees would be trivially avoidable by having one monthly transaction to the aggregator and one monthly transaction

Sort of like Patreon.

Except it would work a bit differently. Say I approve N number of sites (NY Times, WaPo, EE Times, etc.) They each get paid out of a monthly fund based on how much I visit each of them.

Re: Mmm, Pi-hole

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Post by ansible »

tcmb wrote: post #293
NeedMoreTea wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I heavily believe we should be supporting creators As do I. There's two significant issues I have supporting most sites: 1. They provide only a subscription that is comparable cost to an old-media full subscription. Like most people in the Internet age I have a small number of main sources that I visit daily, and a much larger secondary tier where I may average one or two stories a week. Or they're the sites linked…

I completely agree with your assessment of the problem. I'm using https://blendle.com , which offers a wide variety of publications with payment per article (usually something around 0.70 EUR, with the odd 1.99 EUR for articles from DER SPIEGEL). They also have a daily mix of manually curated content and content based on the articles I purchased in the past, which works really well. I'm afraid it's only available in…

I've been waiting for these guys to launch in the USA since I first heard of them. They're still in beta?

Re: Mmm, Pi-hole

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Post by drb91 »

mrob wrote: post #291
drb91 wrote: post #108

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> Check out the new GMail, my new corporate account has no ads but it still weighs in at 25MB (well 28MB now - still asyncing stuff!) for the inbox. The new gmail is the slowest web app I have ever used. It's gotten so bad I've started managing my email on my relatively snappy inbox iOS client. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't load so much crap, like the gchat functionality nobody has used since 2008.

The old HTML only version still works. I just refreshed mine and got 19.11 KB transfered with cache disabled. (about half that with cache)

Sadly I like the bundling of inbox far too much to switch back at this point.
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