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Some ad agencies starting asking hosters to add a CNAME record to one of their domains. Let's say I have your own blog running on dastx.me, and I wanted some ads from adgiant.com. As an adblocker you've added `* .adgiant.com` to your blacklist and I'm an asshole and try to circumvent such adblocking measure. Them young millennials and their tech. Stealing me out of my money! So I go to adgiant.com and ask them if the…

cdn.goodsite.com -> tracker.badsite.com cdn used to mean - serve the same static content all over the world and speed things up. cdn now means - serve up different content to every single person and track them. take a look at stack overflow and it's cdn.

Just because bad guys use a CDN doesn't mean CDNs are bad

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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> Much more efficient memory use. This is more impressive than it sounds. My pihole currently uses about 25MB of RAM with over half a million blocked domains and around 20 clients.

I'm curious what lists you're using that gets you to 500k blocked domains?

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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No additional hardware required, you can use it to provide some protection to your family without having to worry about remote access to the Pi-Hole to configure things, works for your devices on the go, cheaper than running pi-hole in the cloud yourself unless. Pricing wise it’s over 2 years worth of service for the price of an original Pi, a good SD card and a case. The only circumstances where Pi Hole is unquestio…

FWIW, pihole is not tied to any particular hardware. For example: https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole

You can also just install it on Debian. I have it in a VM.

Their install script is at https://install.pi-hole.net

Docs: https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/basic-install/

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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> Much more efficient memory use. This is more impressive than it sounds. My pihole currently uses about 25MB of RAM with over half a million blocked domains and around 20 clients.

I'm curious what lists you're using that gets you to 500k blocked domains?

That's nothing... I have 2 million.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Blocking Facebook stuff on every device except my wife’s phone.

Why not just tell your DHCP server to give her the regular DNS servers? Is this situation where she wants ad blocking but still wants to use FB?

Yeah, ad blocking in general is what makes the web tolerable.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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I set up a pihole and literally forgot about it. Like I was cleaning out a closet on moving day and found it plugged in. Took a moment to even realise what it was doing there.

I’m reminded almost every day that I have a pi-hole since it is not my dns provider when on my company’s vpn. It’s absolutely night and day on so much of the web. Some sites have so many ads now it’s just shocking to be frank.

Obviously will depend on your company, but some corporate VPN clients will still let you use a local or alternate DNS. Then just add the machines you need to connect to on your work network to your hosts file.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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it broke down for me after 10min of use. no amount of reinstall or cleaning cache helped.

it has frail feet but it does work more often than not

Interestingly it's been working perfectly for me with no issues for almost 1 year. A bit surprised to learn that it is not stable for a bunch of people.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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No additional hardware required, you can use it to provide some protection to your family without having to worry about remote access to the Pi-Hole to configure things, works for your devices on the go, cheaper than running pi-hole in the cloud yourself unless. Pricing wise it’s over 2 years worth of service for the price of an original Pi, a good SD card and a case. The only circumstances where Pi Hole is unquestio…

FWIW, pihole is not tied to any particular hardware. For example: https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole

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Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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> Much more efficient memory use. This is more impressive than it sounds. My pihole currently uses about 25MB of RAM with over half a million blocked domains and around 20 clients.

I'm curious what lists you're using that gets you to 500k blocked domains?

They decided to go with a whitelist approach.
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