Previous discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19258717
Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
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#122Couldn't apps start hard coding DNS servers to avoid pi-holes?
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#123Pi-hole is my most prized addition to my connected home. It was simple to set up, easy to manage, and easy to access for whitelisting. Now, all of my devices throughout my network benefit from the service, as opposed to relying on locally installed solutions. If you aren't using it, you should!
Haven't you noticed any drastic reductions in speed? My rpi 3b (not 3b+) just couldn't handle it. It had 2 users. Our DNS resolution times increased by about 200ms. It was awful. I stripped it back out and haven't bothered trying to set it up again. (Other details: the RPI was hardwired, wireless disabled, and it was a fresh raspbian install with zero customization outside of adding pihole.)
I have my router setup to act as a dns resolver and cache, with the pi-hole (rpi 3b) upstream. This fixed my speed issues as only a few queries actually make it to the pi-hole.
The router has a secondary dns server as well in case the rpi goes down (which has happened ~2 in the last year or so) or I need to fiddle with it.
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#124Is this available as a Synology package I could install on my Synology NAS?
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#125Interesting. How would this integrate into a network running DNS Resolver (i.e. Unbound) in pfSense?
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#126Pi-hole is my most prized addition to my connected home. It was simple to set up, easy to manage, and easy to access for whitelisting. Now, all of my devices throughout my network benefit from the service, as opposed to relying on locally installed solutions. If you aren't using it, you should!
Haven't you noticed any drastic reductions in speed? My rpi 3b (not 3b+) just couldn't handle it. It had 2 users. Our DNS resolution times increased by about 200ms. It was awful. I stripped it back out and haven't bothered trying to set it up again. (Other details: the RPI was hardwired, wireless disabled, and it was a fresh raspbian install with zero customization outside of adding pihole.)
I would say that you may have a setup issue with your router. My resolution times decreased when the pi-hole is providing DNS responses. I have 30+ devices on a 3b+.
I'm using a UniFi setup and both WAN and LAN point to the pi-hole local ip address.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with the "old" way, where you visit a Mopar automotive related website and saw Mopar car part ads? Or when you visit a computer magazine and saw ads for computer parts? Or when you went to NYT and saw basic shit like paper towels and fall fashion? It became a problem when everyone and their sister started needing to know what kinds of kinks I'm into just to sell me dish detergent.
This is hilariously accurate. I've been predicting for a while now that sites would fall back to the old television show model "RockAuto presents MustangForums.com" or something to that effect. Instead, we get a dancing Albert Einstein begging us to take IQ tests.
This is in fact very popular among both YouTube channels and podcast producers. It makes a lot of sense for an advertiser to pick a producer who matches their market and have that producer create an in content advertisement. I am fine with this. The content producer wins, the advertiser wins, and the viewer wins by getting better ads by someone they want to support.
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#129Apparently it blocks some domains necessary for the Washington Post articles to load. Whitelisting washingtonpost.com doesn't remove the adblock notice :(
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#130Why hasn't anyone, or pi-hole themselves, made a public DNS that does this? Pass everything not on the blocklist thru to 1.1.1.1.
The fact that this requires special hardware, bash commands, etc is severely limiting the audience. The more people blocking ads the quicker the internet changes.
Edit: thanks for the replies!