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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…
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Yes. I have local adblockers running (umatrix in Firefox, ublock origin in Chrome), plus Pihole.
Currently using ublock origin and thinking of adding the pihole (party cause it just seems like a fun weekend project). Anyone have experience with how often maintenance needs to be done and/or settings need to be tweaked on the pihole? Hoping for something I won't have to fiddle with more than every couple months once it's set up.
I run my Pihole on an Ubuntu system with other things (not running on a Raspberry Pi), so my issues might not be yours. The update process always resets the management port. After rebooting the system, I have to manually restart the Pihole process for Pihole to work.
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…
IME, it really depends on the website. If the user normally has Javascript disabled, then suddenly enables it on a graphical browser while visiting a news website, look out. Dumpster fire indeed. The user's computer resources are quickly usurped and things slow to a crawl. Users have been trained to be patient I guess, waiting for websites to "load". Interestingly, I find that many egregiously ad/tracker-laden websit…
Websites that can't manage to load an image without javascript are a pet peeve of mine and they are everywhere. News sites are the worst, but even popular images hosts where displaying images is their entire job fail miserably. At the very least sites that can't load the image should show a direct link to the image but they never do. I'd happily welcome back all the marquee tags and "under construction" banners of the past if we could take web development back to the point where we didn't need several massive JavaScript libraries hosted across multiple domains to do the most task like display an image.
Preface: I'm moderately technical but don't understand the specific nuances of DNS. Is there any possibility Pi-Hole and the DNS server plus hosts file could be used in an attack? Could I setup a web server with identical UI to my target site, get one of the list providers to direct chase.com to my IP, list gets propagated to all Pi-Hole devices, and start collecting credentials?
At the moment, if an attacker has control of your DNS, it's game over before you even start. There are some technologies that help, such as secure DNS (DNSSEC) and "certificate pinning" but they don't do everything.
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…
I have 2 Pi-Holes running. One is the “family” one and our modem/router uses it as primary DNS so basically everything on our network goes through it. This protects the family and any visitors in the wifi. The other is for me, and my personal devices have been manually set to use it as their DNS. It filters a lot more aggressively as I am more willing to put up with broken stuff for more privacy (eg completely blocki…
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.
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Is it still worthwhile to set up if I have ad blocking in all my browsers?
Not for your browsers, no. UBlock Origin is far better than any host-based adblocker. I use pihole to block ads inside apps, it's unmatched for that.
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…
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…
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I think AdGuard's AdGuard Home, Pi-Hole competitor, does this. I've been following it for a while but haven't had the chance to replace my Pi-Hole installation yet.
I played around with it. I really like the integrated DNS over HTTPS, but the reporting doesn't quite match up. I didn't bother switching but it would be a perfectly usable option.