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I do it on a PoE powered raspberry pi. Minimal effort, zero maintenance, no fees other than the initial purchase.
Do you use a PoE switch for this?
Either a switch or an injector.
Pi-hole 5.0
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Mobile Firefox Supports ublock Origin nowadays. I'd encourage anyone to try that out
On iOS too?
No, but there are plenty of other content filtering solutions on iOS, including Mozilla’s own Firefox Focus that can be installed as a system-level content filter.
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#173But don't new browsers and Android use their own DNS servers?!
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#174Cross-posting from my comment on Reddit's /r/Linux I'm a little disappointed that they seem to be very uninterested on how to get it working on "unsupported" configurations My x86 gateway currently runs on Gentoo (PFsense kept having random crashing issues) and it's something I'd love to add to it as far as I can tell all Pi-Hole needs is - Lighttpd + PHP (web management portal) - DNSMASq (DNS) - DHCPD (DHCP) - git (…
Hi, for other reasons I am porting Pi-hole to Erlang/Elixir so that it can run on any platform that has Erlang (including Gentoo). Let me know if you are interested.
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
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NextDNS is pretty good especially on iOS where you can’t install adblockers (unlike on rooted android)
You can't? https://www.imore.com/how-block-ads-your-iphone-or-ipad
> Where can I block ads? Only in Safari (or an app using the Safari View Controller).
Pihole is a system wide Adblocker and so is NextDNS on iOS. So are the ones you can install on Android rooted.
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
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That’s pretty neat! Do you plan on open sourcing it? I’m hesitant to trust an application with my pi-hole api token (and with it, all of my browsing/network data).
It's not my project. I am using it from within Test Flight. It is great for non-technical people who just need to temporarily disable Pi-Hole in order to get some sort of functionality to work that wouldn't otherwise. One idea that I want to explore is to create an Alexa Skill to temporarily disable Pi-Hole. This has probably been done already.
I don't have a link handy but someone mentioned in an HN comment a few days ago that they created a "shortcut" on iOS that simply hits the Pi-hole URL to temporarily disable blocking.
Seemed like a great way to handle that problem -- especially for the non-technical people on your network.
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#177I like Pi-hole, but pi@pihole:~ $ pihole -up [i] Checking for updates... [i] Pi-hole Core: up to date [i] Web Interface: up to date [i] FTL: up to date [] Everything is up to date! pi@pihole:~ $ pihole -v Pi-hole version is v4.4 (Latest: v5.0) AdminLTE version is v4.3.3 (Latest: v5.0) FTL version is v5.0 (Latest: v5.0)
Were you on the beta?
Try this pihole checkout master
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#178I prefer blocking ads by browser extension for PC/iOS and device local MiTM solution (like AdGuard) for Android because these solutions can block more precisely and easier to unblock things permanently or temporary, compared to DNS server solution like Pi-hole or NextDNS. Why choose DNS solution? I suspect the reasons are maybe like for lower resource usage (especially for smartphones), works for smart device like TV…
There's a chrome extension where you can disable the ad-blocking on Pihole temporarily.
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
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I do it on a PoE powered raspberry pi. Minimal effort, zero maintenance, no fees other than the initial purchase.
Do you use a PoE switch for this?
I use a ubiquiti switch. I've decided to build my network with PoE in mind and one central location to power it all, backed up by a UPS.
Re: Pi-hole 5.0
#180I've always planned on building a free DNS using pi-hole. Any comments on this? Will you use it? (I understand privacy is an issue, how to better address this?)