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> Use it for ad-blocking in your home network and to finally browse the web, watch videos etc. without annoying ads. It doesn't really do this as well as a browser adblocker, YouTube ads for example can't effectively be blocked with pihole
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As always, it's not the ads most of us object to- it's the trackers. Google's original idea for monetizing the web, that you would be interested in something related to what you were searching for, apparently failed and now everybody's trying to follow you around to see what you might be interested in purchasing. It needs to stop. I know it's a lame solution but I use ff and containers and have a "shopping" container…
>it's not the ads most of us object to I would love to see real data on this! Most of my peers don't want to be marketed to, at least when it comes to internet advertising. Definitely when it comes to traditional advertising (ie billboards are an eyesore, TV ads are offensive or irrelevant or just plain annoying).
I understand that advertisers pay for the sites I use and I would turn off the ad-blocker if I was promised I wasn't being tracked. But we have no control over those decisions so we do what we can.
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I am a djbdns user. I also use nsd and unbound. I do not use "upstream" third party DNS, such as 9.9.9.9. Surprised to hear that anyone still uses MaraDNS. What I am curious about are these massive blocklists. Does anyone actually read through them. Does it make sense to block 60,000 hosts when only, say 100 or even 1000, ever stand a chance of being accessed by a user's computer -- due to the user's particular usage…
In my experience, using an upstream server is faster and more reliable than having a DNS server on a home network recursively solve the name. That said, MaraDNS/Deadwood does have full recursion support, which resolves correctly over 99.9% of domains, but there is that .1% or less of misconfigured domains which only resolve when a recursive DNS server is bug-for-bug identical to BIND. NSD/Unbound are good DNS servers…
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash Sigh
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I am a djbdns user. I also use nsd and unbound. I do not use "upstream" third party DNS, such as 9.9.9.9. Surprised to hear that anyone still uses MaraDNS. What I am curious about are these massive blocklists. Does anyone actually read through them. Does it make sense to block 60,000 hosts when only, say 100 or even 1000, ever stand a chance of being accessed by a user's computer -- due to the user's particular usage…
Well, why not? 60.000 isn't a huge amount for a modern computer. If they're known to contain ads/trackers you want to block, then why not include them? It might make sense though to do a periodic run through them to see if they still exist.
Please do note that Android appears to be quite weird in regards to accepting network set DNS. My observations so far have been that Android tends to ignore any DNS set by either the network via DHCP or statically set. Android instead probes the gateway for 8.8.8.8, and happily uses that instead. The only way I have been able to solve this has been to setup a VPN (I prefer wireguard) on the pihole. Android seems to a…
If you have a decent router, then you can just forcibly redirect any DNS requests from 8.8.8.8 to your PiHole.
I don't want to add an extra router because that would add unnecessary latency. The above is not an unusual setup at all.