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Pi-Hole 4.3.2

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Re: Pi-Hole 4.3.2

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Post by chaosbutters »

asymmetric wrote: post #32
philliphaydon wrote: post #29

Donno if this is a silly question or not. But if there anywhere to buy a raspberry + pi with pi-hole pre-configured on it? I've wanted one for a while but just wanna plug it in and go to the web console, not buy it set it up install it etc.

I've found this[0]. [0]: https://uk.pi-supply.com/products/pi-hole-kit-network-wide-a...

thank you!

Re: Pi-Hole 4.3.2

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Post by guilhermetk »

philliphaydon wrote: post #31
qzx_pierri wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All you have to do is run a script from the pi-hole website to install. It’s very effortless. Like.. literally effortless. If you’re posting here, I guarantee you could do it in no time. The “hardest” part is excluding an IP for the pihole & setting your DHCP server to serve that IP w/ new leases. Good luck dude.

Haha ok. I Guess my Xmas present to myself this year is a raspberry pi and setting this up :) Thanks!

Go for it, it's really worth the effort, even if it is a small one, with the bonus of being fun (at least for me it is). I can't imagine setting up my home network without pihole, and I'm considering setting it up at work, I manage a small network with 100 devices connected to the internet.

Re: Pi-Hole 4.3.2

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Post by imglorp »

y4mi wrote: post #5
donkeyd wrote: post #2

I can't find this anywhere, but does Pi-Hole have any sort of client side 'reload without blocking' functionality? If I were to implement this in my network and a user has issues with a page not loading/functioning correctly, I feel like they'd need my help to add the site to a white list, which would be pretty inconvenient.

It has an API. > You can craft a URL that disables pi-hole for X minutes, using the API. You hit the boomark and boom, pi-hole temporarily disabled. If you save it to your phone's home-screen, you've got an instant disable button.

Nice.

There should be a browser plugin to make this convenient. Maybe a good side project?

Re: Pi-Hole 4.3.2

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Post by rietta »

philliphaydon wrote: post #31
qzx_pierri wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All you have to do is run a script from the pi-hole website to install. It’s very effortless. Like.. literally effortless. If you’re posting here, I guarantee you could do it in no time. The “hardest” part is excluding an IP for the pihole & setting your DHCP server to serve that IP w/ new leases. Good luck dude.

Haha ok. I Guess my Xmas present to myself this year is a raspberry pi and setting this up :) Thanks!

If you have an existing desktop unused or something you can run it on any Linux. I personally run the PiHole on a Debian VM on my FreeNAS server (that is already running).

Re: Pi-Hole 4.3.2

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Post by paulcole »

boyter wrote: post #15

Just recently I experimented going without my pi-hole or any ad blocker software for 4 weeks to see what would happen. My goodness the internet is a dumpster fire without it. So many pages lagging and slow to load. Things I wanted to click that jumped when an ad loaded resulting in miss clicks. Annoying things following me around. It was especially bad on mobile with the GDRP/Cookie notices and ad's to the point that…

If you’re into fun experiments, you can also try putting a few pennies into a jar whenever you visit a website or write a script to simply block the sites you need to visit.

Re: Pi-Hole 4.3.2

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Post by aurbano »

I already have uBlock Origin on Firefox, with tracking protection set to strict and I don't really remember seeing ads on desktop.

I guess the main benefit of the PiHole is to have ad blocking on mobile devices, iPads... and others, do you think this is worth the effort of setting up in your experience?

Re: Pi-Hole 4.3.2

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Post by mihaifm »

Mister_Snuggles wrote: post #35

The one thing that's holding me back on actually using Pi-Hole is the lack of flexibility. What I'd really like to see is the ability to do various things on a per-client basis. For example, one commenter wanted a simple "reload without blocking" functionality and the response was to use a bookmarklet plus the Pi-Hole API to disable it temporarily. This works, but the problem is that it disables it temporarily for ev…

Pihole is just a GUI on top of dnsmasq, they're not doing anything fancy, apart maybe for the extra statistics. These are some interesting ideas for improvement, I'd also be interested in something with more flexibility, but I'm not sure if there's an alternative at the moment.
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