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"But what about my business model? Don't you know I have an inalienable right to it?"
How is that any different from someone thinking they have an inalienable right to any article/website they want?
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Yep, my experience as well. There must be a better way. I think we're warming up for a war since browsers (Chrome and Safari at least) have slowly started making it harder to block ads, which I think will becoming a creeping normality.
DoH in Firefox will bypass your pihole too and have all your DNS data go to cloudflare to boot.
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It has an API. > You can craft a URL that disables pi-hole for X minutes, using the API. You hit the boomark and boom, pi-hole temporarily disabled. If you save it to your phone's home-screen, you've got an instant disable button.
Man, it would be nice if there were a native app for iOS which you could link to multiple Pi-Holes for easy management and/or Siri Shortcuts. I'd definitely drop a few bucks for that app - and I'm sure a few others would too! Please DM me if anyone is working on it and needs a beta tester via Test Flight.
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I have 2 Pi-Holes running. One is the “family” one and our modem/router uses it as primary DNS so basically everything on our network goes through it. This protects the family and any visitors in the wifi. The other is for me, and my personal devices have been manually set to use it as their DNS. It filters a lot more aggressively as I am more willing to put up with broken stuff for more privacy (eg completely blocki…
This is the perfect solution in my opinion. I never considered using more than one!
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Not for your browsers, no. UBlock Origin is far better than any host-based adblocker. I use pihole to block ads inside apps, it's unmatched for that.
That would be a suitable use case, but I don't think I use any apps that contain ads.
Just recently I experimented going without my pi-hole or any ad blocker software for 4 weeks to see what would happen. My goodness the internet is a dumpster fire without it. So many pages lagging and slow to load. Things I wanted to click that jumped when an ad loaded resulting in miss clicks. Annoying things following me around. It was especially bad on mobile with the GDRP/Cookie notices and ad's to the point that…
Is there any special reason to use pi-hole + adblocker? Why just to not use one of them?
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"But what about my business model? Don't you know I have an inalienable right to it?"
How is that any different from someone thinking they have an inalienable right to any article/website they want?
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Yep, my experience as well. There must be a better way. I think we're warming up for a war since browsers (Chrome and Safari at least) have slowly started making it harder to block ads, which I think will becoming a creeping normality.
DoH in Firefox will bypass your pihole too and have all your DNS data go to cloudflare to boot.
Yes, it should be disabled by default but it not the end of the world. I would hazard a guess that when Chrome implements something similar that it won't be so easy to disable.
Just recently I experimented going without my pi-hole or any ad blocker software for 4 weeks to see what would happen. My goodness the internet is a dumpster fire without it. So many pages lagging and slow to load. Things I wanted to click that jumped when an ad loaded resulting in miss clicks. Annoying things following me around. It was especially bad on mobile with the GDRP/Cookie notices and ad's to the point that…
You don't really miss out on anything and actually reward proper sites.
The one thing that's holding me back on actually using Pi-Hole is the lack of flexibility. What I'd really like to see is the ability to do various things on a per-client basis. For example, one commenter wanted a simple "reload without blocking" functionality and the response was to use a bookmarklet plus the Pi-Hole API to disable it temporarily. This works, but the problem is that it disables it temporarily for ev…
Pihole is just a GUI on top of dnsmasq, they're not doing anything fancy, apart maybe for the extra statistics. These are some interesting ideas for improvement, I'd also be interested in something with more flexibility, but I'm not sure if there's an alternative at the moment.