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My pihole blocks about 20% of queries. I have noticed literally 0 changes in my internet or computer using experience since installing it. It's baffling how much useless telemetry and other crap there is, slowing internet down and wasting cpu cycles.
I prefer blocking ads by browser extension for PC/iOS and device local MiTM solution (like AdGuard) for Android because these solutions can block more precisely and easier to unblock things permanently or temporary, compared to DNS server solution like Pi-hole or NextDNS. Why choose DNS solution? I suspect the reasons are maybe like for lower resource usage (especially for smartphones), works for smart device like TV…
There's a chrome extension where you can disable the ad-blocking on Pihole temporarily.
Can someone please explain how exactly does this work? So I have an ubuntu system. Is it ok to just install it in my local system alone and use it? Or should I be doing something to connect to a modem or something? I currently use my phone as the hotspot for my computer. If I install it say in a remote server in digital ocean, how can I use my phone/computer to use pi hole? Still a noob when it comes to networking so…
My setup:
2x Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole 1x OpenWRT running DHCP
DHCP answers with DNS servers rpi1 and rpi2 IP addresses.
Does this make sense?
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Thank you, I’ve been needing to do this frequently.
What kind of sites, if you don't mind sharing? I've been using pi-hole for 4 years now and I can remember two situations when I had to disable it - and one of those was cloudflare's fault (PS4 cloud saves don't work with 1.1.1.1 DNS)
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They recommend the AdGuard Home one now... That's why they have replaced it. I also don't like it as AdGuard is a commercial company, and I have zero need for the added features like parental control. But I don't really care, I run all the dockers that have nothing to do with home assistant outside of hassio anyway.
To be fair, AdGuard Home is an open source project under GPL, so there's that.
For me that means Firefox, uBlock Origin and pihole (though I ran dnsmasq myself for a while, I like what they've made of pihole now, it's come a long way!)
Alternatively for MAX_lazyness and convenience I've been using https://nextdns.io , does all the same stuff and is the alternative to cloudflare in Firefox for DNS-over-Https (DOH)
Is there an advantage in sending all of your DNS queries to a for-profit company vs. setting up your own Pi-hole? Their privacy policy seems legit[0] but why trust them at all when Pi-hole is an option? [0] https://nextdns.io/privacy
Alternatively for MAX_lazyness and convenience I've been using https://nextdns.io , does all the same stuff and is the alternative to cloudflare in Firefox for DNS-over-Https (DOH)
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Setting up automatic updates is probably a good idea.
Can you recommend a good way to make sure the Pi and Pi-hole are always up to date? I imagine a simple cron with pihole -up is not sufficient?
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Too bad in my country all ISPs are required by the government to intercept (or block) all dns requests except their own dns server to block any domain listed in the national domain blocklist database. DNS on port other than 53 is still working though, so I have set up my pihole to use an upstream dns server that accept connection on a higher port and a cloudflare DoH server as a fallback (not sure why but DoH is real…
They could've at least intercepted the requests and applied their blacklist while leaving unblacklisted requests pass through as-is (so you can still use a custom server for the non-banned domains). Not saying I'm in favour of these shenanigans at all but at least if you are forced to do it then better do it with the minimum level of interference possible.