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Pi-hole 5.0

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Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by surround »

tfehring wrote: post #17
notkaiho wrote: post #2

Pi-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...

AdGuard DNS works well for YouTube ads IME. https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

I’m pretty sure that the on-device app blocks youtube ads, not the DNS filtering.

Although I think it is indeed possible to block youtube ads through DNS filtering, it’s just really difficult & only works temporarily before needing to block new domains.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by tfehring »

surround wrote: post #121
tfehring wrote: post #17

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AdGuard DNS works well for YouTube ads IME. https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

I’m pretty sure that the on-device app blocks youtube ads, not the DNS filtering. Although I think it is indeed possible to block youtube ads through DNS filtering, it’s just really difficult & only works temporarily before needing to block new domains.

I actually looked into this a bit after posting that comment, since it occurred to me that I don't actually know exactly what's blocking YouTube ads for me. (I'm still not sure, which is why I didn't edit my previous comment after doing that research.)

Empirically, I don't get YouTube ads in the iOS app. I do use Firefox Focus as a content blocker, in addition to AdGuard DNS. I don't use the AdGuard app, and it was my understanding that Firefox Focus only blocked ads in Safari, so I assumed it was AdGuard DNS. The documentation for AdGuard DNS seems to indicate that it shouldn't work for this, but it seems like either that documentation or the documentation for iOS content blockers is missing something. Unless YouTube has just decided not to serve me ads for some reason. (I'm not complaining either way.)

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by KCUOJJQJ »

disiplus wrote: post #11
nobodyshere wrote: post #9

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I'd rather recommend this one: https://newpipe.schabi.org/ At least it is opensource and works great.

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

Maybe coincidentally after the 10 minutes YouTube changed something? Once or twice NewPipe stopped working for me suddenly but an update helped. BTW F-Droid gets updates of NewPipe a bit later than GitHub it seems.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by city41 »

pfundstein wrote: post #102
city41 wrote: post #88

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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.

Why not use a client based content filter such as uBlock Origin?

I could (and heck, probably should). But I don't browse websites all that often on the vpn. Just on the occasion that I do, I'm blown away at all the ads :) So just lazy.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by askvictor »

notkaiho wrote: post #2

Pi-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...

I had something working a while ago for YT ad blocking in chromecast; the underlying problem there is that the chromecast is hard-coded to use Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8, etc) instead of your networks. So you need to set up your network to intercept DNS requests to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and instead send these to your own ad-blocked DNS server. My network setup no longer lets me do this, and I don't care enough to make it work.

Just pay for YT premium if you don't want ads (to all those people complaining about wanting an option to pay and not be tracked/advertised to/etc - this is a great opporunity to put your money where your mouth is)

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by GekkePrutser »

dastx wrote: post #42
ciarannolan wrote: post #31

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>I’m especially excited to see CNAME inspection. I was tired of trying to figure out what domains like “xuenl4v1szy8g.cloudfront.net” were doing. Is there a good explainer for CNAME inspection? I'm not finding anything good with my Google Fu.

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…

Thanks! I hadn't heard of this method. One question though: What will prevent the ad providers from asking their customers to add an A/AAAA record to one of their IPs? That'll be much harder to combat for an adblocker especially because those IPs will usually be shared with actual content services.

Of course this'll add overhead to the visited website manager because the IPs will probably change regularly as they're pointing to cloud services. But I'm sure they'll manage to automate this.

I bet this will be the next step in this cat & mouse game.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by GekkePrutser »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #101
ekovarski wrote: post #94

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It’s a great service but only the first 300k queries are free, then you are no longer offered any of the benefits unless you pay $1.99 per month

Is that not a trivial amount for hands off DNS recursion services? Consider the cost to purchase a Raspberry Pi, set it up, electricity, wear and tear on flash storage, etc If you point me at a checkout page for $2/month to not even have to think about plugging a Pi in, I’m going to pull my credit card out in a heartbeat. A single coffee costs me more. Think about your time!

Price-wise it'll probably be a no-brainer. Even though a pi can come as cheap as 2 or 3 coffees. A zero is sufficient for pi-hole.

But it's about taking control too. Personally I wouldn't like taking a service even if it were free, over hosting something myself, especially when it's made as easy as Pi-hole does.

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