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Why would I use Blocky vs. Pi-Hole? It seems like a nice project but pi-hole is really mature; I'd love to see a feature comparison or a brag sheet showing what it's better at.
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I'm in the same boat as you, but taking it a step further, I'm completely blind to the first 1/3rd of google search results. The first 3 are already ads, and then there's the "quick info" card on most searches. I've subconsciously trained myself to just flat out skip over those results. So in my case, I don't know that an ad blocker really even helps me on google, because I'm ignoring those first results anyway.
Yup, skip all sponsored and ad content. I do the same on Amazon and ebay - even when the advertised product is _exactly_ what I want, and the best price available, I refuse to purchase from a sponsored listing.
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What annoyed me the most is actually clicking on ads from Google Search. Sometime I searched a product and I couldn't clicked on the first result because they are advertisements.
Every time threads like this come up I am reminded that Google has ads. I don't see them, presumably because of uBlock Origin. I'm typing this response not to smugly boast, but because it's a lead in to the question that your comment raised within me: Are you using Pihole to block ads at a network level, but not also using a browser extension to block them at the client?
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I have a silly "trick" for this. In Firefox you can add a SOCKS5 proxy and click "Proxy DNS with SOCKS5 proxy". This bypasses the system DNS. So for example, if you make a container with this, then you can just quickly open the URL that's blocked in the other container and it will bypass the network-level DNS adblock. There are other ways to do it without a container, I'm sure, maybe with an add-on/toggle or somethin…
How are you using a different proxy per container tab? I've tried FoxyProxy but it leaked DNS requests through the local network resolver even with SOCKS5 proxies.
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Unfortunately yes, there are features on big websites which just don't work. Now every time, I have an issue with any website, my first instinct is to turn off pi-hole. Most of the time, pi-hole is not the even the issue, but sometimes it is. It's annoying to browse the internet while constantly thinking "Maybe there is an issue on my side".
> Unfortunately yes, there are features on big websites which just don't work. It is very rare that I find something stalker-blocking (pihole on my local network & VPN) causes to break that I care enough to turn blocking off for. It might have happened as little as twice, one of those occurrences predating PiHole. Information is usually in many other places or I really don't care that much, and shopping sites that br…
My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the pro…
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/pi-hole-remote/id1515445551?l=...
My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the pro…
I have a handful of different wifi SSIDs set up on my network at home to help with this, some route their DNS queries through a pihole instance and others (say, without the “AB” for ‘adblock’ suffix on their ssid names), don’t. Each ssid is their own vlan and each has their own dhcp listening that doles out the pihole instance address on the Adblock-enabled nets. It’s easy enough to just connect to a different ssid i…
Can't block Youtube shorts with these DNS adblockers, I know I can use browser extensions on a computer (and I do), but I really want to block shorts on iOS/Android apps. Tried the squid https proxy rabbit hole, but could not get it to work with mobile devices. Any hints?
NewPipe for Android has no shorts
super useful for being able to use cloudflare dns but still resolve the archive.* domains using a different resolver (because archive.* blocks cloudflare for ideological reasons): conditional: mapping: archive.is: 8.8.8.8 archive.today: 8.8.8.8 archive.md: 8.8.8.8 archive.ph: 8.8.8.8
server=/archive.today/8.8.8.8
server=/archive.ph/8.8.8.8
server=/archive.is/8.8.8.8
server=/archive.li/8.8.8.8
server=/archive.vn/8.8.8.8
server=/archive.fo/8.8.8.8
server=/archive.md/8.8.8.8
server=/archive.to/8.8.8.8Can't block Youtube shorts with these DNS adblockers, I know I can use browser extensions on a computer (and I do), but I really want to block shorts on iOS/Android apps. Tried the squid https proxy rabbit hole, but could not get it to work with mobile devices. Any hints?