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i am very much intrigued by this, atleast from consumer prespective. I am completed noob, is it "simple" enought to set up?
Pi-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!
is there any security concerns with the pi itself? say your computer is infected with a really bad malware. it takes over your host, ignores your right to block out noise, and then the idea that pi-hole will be able to as a last resort block it out?
Pi-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!
I see it as an advantage for all the devices on your network. I mean, to block trackers from Windows computers, or Roku devices or android apps. But as an adblocker - I feel like I'm missing something. It acts as a DNS server for your local network and blocks what's essentially a host file. So how does it handle ads served through websockets? How does it handle ads that come from the same domain as legitimate content…
Why 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!
Why 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!
There was discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012687
Why 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!
Why 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!
Or could fund it with some targeted ads. Oh, wait.
Why 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!
I run my own knot-resolver server that forwards everything to 1.1.1.1 over TLS and I generate an .rpz that is basically the same filter list as pihole. Most DNS traffic ends up at Cloudflare, so you may as well go straight to the source.
https://gist.github.com/jzelinskie/3d2b11830224993fc8a7441b3...
Why 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!
Just to be clear, what change are you expecting to happen? Not /s.
I am not the relevant commenter, but what things would you expect to not change in a scenario where a majority of websites lost all ad revenue. (As admittedly unrealistic as it sounds the same was once true re moon landing and here we are, debating viability of not ruining our lives with advertising.)
Why 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!
include "/etc/bind/ad-blacklist";
/etc/cron.daily/update-ad-blacklist
or equivalent for unbound, maradns.... whatever.