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Standard reminder for whenever Pi-Hole gets brought up: You don't actually need a physical Raspberry Pi for this functionality, and you don't even need the Pi-Hole software. It's all just wrappers around dnsmasq[1], which every Linux distribution makes available via their package manager. If you have an old spare Linux system on your LAN already, doing whatever, you can just install and set up dnsmasq and point your…
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> read TFA for the iptables config that fixes those apps and devices that bypass local DNS. For example, Don't worry. All the browsers and stuff are bypassing this level of control by moving to DNS-over-HTTPS. You'll either have to deploy a TLS terminating proxy on your network, or give up on this arms race.
To be fair, if you are geeky enough to run a PiHole you will have no trouble finding the config option to turn off DoH in your browser.
After having some persistent issues with my previous pi-hole setup, running as an add-on on my Home Assistant rPi 5, I moved to AdGuard Home on dedicated hardware. I run it on a rPi Zero 2W (15$), with the Waveshare Ethernet / USB HUB BOX (16$). Together with a power brick (5$) and a meh µSD card, it's very affordable. I did add a small heatsink on the CPU and left the lid off the box to improve the temperature situa…
Does it really have to be installed in the local network? I would like to set it once in a server and then be able to configure the box of all my friends, family, etc.
I've found my complaint about having a pi-hole is there are a number of services I use that expect/depend on ads existing in order to function. Things like, some shows on paramount+ (as an example) will fail to play (hang indefinitely) if an ad hasn't run before one of their shows, even though it theoretically shouldn't have ads?
Additionally, the other thing I run into, is that the first page of google is basically useless to me, even when the top result is an ad to the thing that I want, because when I click on the ad link, the pi-hole doesn't route me to the link I want. So I find I have to scroll down a half-page to get to the regular link I googled for.
If anyone has any workarounds for these issues, I've otherwise really enjoyed having a pi-hole. (Though my friends frequently tell me to stop talking about it, they'll say "shut your pi-hole", really weird).
Edit: Seems like they recommend tailoring the list of accepted domains for things in the article. (Will do this for paramount, I guess).
For Google, I separately stopped using an ad-blocker because it broke youtube when I did, even though I shouldn't get ads on youtube to begin with... God I hate the internet some days. But I imagine the easiest thing to do is to add that back so I can ignore those links.
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For me it's because: - I need it to work within phone apps, my TV, on Safari, and on Chrome - I just don't trust Chrome addons. When you go to install an ad blocker, there's an extremely ominous warning about how it can read everything shown on my browser. What's worse - apparently these addons can change hands down the line, and the new owners can simply push new code. I don't want this thing phoning home with scree…
> When you go to install an ad blocker, there's an extremely ominous warning about how it can read everything shown on my browser I'm not sure how a blocker would work if it couldn't see the content of the page...
> 66.6% of all traffic is blocked I hear things like this a lot from PiHole users. But it's incorrect. Correct would be: 66.6% of DNS requests have been blocked. This says nothing about the actual volume of traffic/data that has been blocked
In my case, a single "smart light" in my house hammers iot-auth-global.aliyuncs.com all day, every day. Three other identical lights running the same firmware don't however.
Disclaimer: The below is not a complaint about the pi-hole itself, but the ways in which companies integrate ads into their online presence. I've found my complaint about having a pi-hole is there are a number of services I use that expect/depend on ads existing in order to function. Things like, some shows on paramount+ (as an example) will fail to play (hang indefinitely) if an ad hasn't run before one of their sho…
Does it really have to be installed in the local network? I would like to set it once in a server and then be able to configure the box of all my friends, family, etc.