Per client blocking is clearly the biggest change. I am excited about this.
What is the use case of per client blocking?
Blocking Facebook stuff on every device except my wife’s phone.
Pi-hole 5.0
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Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#22Woohoo been waiting for this for months.
I host pihole on a home server in a docker container and spend 5 mins a month just updating it. No other administration. Definitely use it to get rid of trackers and ads.
(I should add that I also pay for about dozen publications/newspapers that I read frequently in lieu of not seeing ads)
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#23Per client blocking is clearly the biggest change. I am excited about this.
What is the use case of per client blocking?
I have several users and multiple devices in our household. FB is not allowed anywhere near my PC, but wife has to currently switch between piholed and not piholed wifi. It just allows for a much better control. Heavens know not everyone is like me.
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#24Pi-Hole has made my home browsing experience so much better since setting it up. Minimal resource overhead, maximum results - and if you care about stats those are available too but I just turned all logging off. Now if it could just filter out YouTube ads...
> vanced.app
They very recently moved to require an special additional app just for installing their new .apks file (which is a file containing multiple .apk inside), called SAI.
That would be fine by me, if it wasn't because SAI requires Android 5.0, while my Nvidia Tegra -like tablet (Xiaomi MiPad 1) is stuck on Android 4.4 :-(
(no, Lineage and friends is not a good replacement, they all break the camera, and yet worse, suck battery like crazy)
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a way to protect it, or is there no security concern with this? I run a pi zero, but I've been using nextdns recently to compare.
Protect it how exactly? You can create firewall rules on DigitalOcean and limit the IP addresses from which the DNS server is accessible.
that works only if you have a static ip home (which you usually don't have) or on your smartphone (which you don't have)
> https://www.calyptix.com/top-threats/3-common-dns-attacks-an...
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
> vanced.app
I'd rather recommend this one: https://newpipe.schabi.org/ At least it is opensource and works great.
I used NewPipe for a while and it was very nice, enjoyed how well it works. However I started wanting to see videos on my TV (Chromecast), and that's where the abilities of NewPipe fell short.
They have an open issue [0] since a couple years ago, but so far it is not a feature yet.
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#27Is there a way to quickly disable/re-enable pihole for the network?
With AdGuard DNS or uBlock Origin I still get into situations where occasionally they break a site completely and I have to temporarily disable the plugin (or switch to cell tower dns) to get the site working, so I’d want a quick way out of pi-holing traffic as well
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#28Alternatively for MAX_lazyness and convenience I've been using https://nextdns.io, does all the same stuff and is the alternative to cloudflare in Firefox for DNS-over-Https (DOH)
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#29Is there a way to quickly disable/re-enable pihole for the network? With AdGuard DNS or uBlock Origin I still get into situations where occasionally they break a site completely and I have to temporarily disable the plugin (or switch to cell tower dns) to get the site working, so I’d want a quick way out of pi-holing traffic as well
You can navigate to the admin console (easily done on any machine on your network) and disable it for a certain amount of time very easily
https://i.imgur.com/K6VgV2G.png
Note this is from pihole 4.3, but I can't image 5 would remove this feature.
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#30Is there a way to quickly disable/re-enable pihole for the network? With AdGuard DNS or uBlock Origin I still get into situations where occasionally they break a site completely and I have to temporarily disable the plugin (or switch to cell tower dns) to get the site working, so I’d want a quick way out of pi-holing traffic as well
The Web UI has a Disable button, and also quick options for permanent, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 5 minutes, custom, etc. I think there's also an API as well. I can toggle it via Alexa and Home-Assistant.
It's a feature that's been around for 2 years or more