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Openwrt has DNS ad-blocking built in which works just as well as pi-hole. It simply doesn't have the monitoring of what is being blocked but it is rarely needed anyway. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/qemu_host
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?
Yes. I have local adblockers running (umatrix in Firefox, ublock origin in Chrome), plus Pihole.
What's the most secure way to setup something like this on your network?
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You could instead WireGuard split tunnel dns traffic and serve it with Pi-Hole or forward it to dns.aguard.com if you do not really require analytics or use unbound with block lists to resolve names recursively.
Have you managed to get WireGuard to do split tunnel DNS? I've been wanting to do this, but couldn't figure out how to make it work on Android, for example.
The gist is, on the client configuration:
1. Set DNS server IP against allowed IP in the peer (which is your wireguard server) section.
2. Set DNS entry to the same IP as above for the client interface.
Ref the discussion and the linked blog post (that talks abt Pi-Hole with wireguard): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19544532, https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/bqccdz/split_tun...
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…
No ETAs as yet, of course, but it's something that has been asked about time and time again, and we think we may just have solved it...
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You can see a screenshot from my VPN pihole blocking tracking requests from my android phone and make a decision do you need it or not. https://i.imgur.com/Hpcw42h.png
Damn, that's amazing.. can't believe 76% of requests are unnecessary. Assuming you're running this on a RPi at home, do you have DynDNS or how are you managing the external IP?
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Spin up a different pi-hole vm per user
How would you handle routing those packets to the correct vm based on the user?
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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.
"But what about my business model? Don't you know I have an inalienable right to it?"
My pi-hole is blocking 20% of all queries. Can we say that 20% of end-users internet traffic is for tracking and advertising ?