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I've been using AdGuard Home, which does pretty much the same thing, but is slightly better polished, with things like support for DoH and OSs other than Linux. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
I went from PiHole -> AdGuard -> NextDNS. My patience for tinkering and maintaining wasn't high enough to not just pay someone else to do it :)
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Good way to teach other members of your house to use VPNs to bypass your censorship regime
I also block Twitter ASN (yes, it is called Twitter ASN), and a whole bunch of IP ranges from not so democratic countries with very bad hostile actors. They don't have rule of law there, so I don't need these. With regards to X. Blocking it serves as a good reminder to use a proxy, or try and find the source elsewhere (Blue Sky, Mastodon). More often than not, these exist. Finally, if required I can use Tor Browser.…
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It's slightly more complicated. What you are suggesting works if (1) you are using Pi-hole as a DHCP server or (2) all your devices are individually configured to use the Pi-hole IP address for DNS resolution. What's more likely though is that you just point your router's DNS setting to Pi-hole, and in that case there is only one client on the Pi-hole dashboard - your router.
Using clients and groups works fine for me. I'm able to block youtube on my kids' devices, but allow it on others. I have pihole running in a container without being my dhcp server.
I am using Pi-Hole for about 8 years and can't imagine a world without it.
Another big THANK YOU to all list maintainers out there. You're doing an incredibly useful service to the community.
I use two old PINE64 (one with FreeBSD, one NetBSD to make it more fun), and the Ansible configuration downloads https://github.com/ShadowWhisperer/BlockLists and creates a file dnsmasq can use. Which lists from the repo to use is defined as a variable.
Works very well and I feel I can understand what is going on.
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I hope that you at some point will understand that these are minorities among a huge population that you are talking about. It sounds like you think that every butcher, barber, dancer, teacher, software dev etc in China is just thinking of how they can hack the US. Guess what: that's the image propagated by propaganda and very far from the actual truth. If you don't trust people, study their code and make a formed op…
This seems like woefully naive virtue-signaling to me. I geo-block all traffic from Iran, N Korea, China and Russia specifically at my clients' firewalls because I have watched the logs and could clearly see IPs from each of these countries attempt connections to American businesses every minute of every day. Try to single out the offending IP and tomorrow it moves to another; you will spend the rest of your days add…
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Using clients and groups works fine for me. I'm able to block youtube on my kids' devices, but allow it on others. I have pihole running in a container without being my dhcp server.
Do you mind sharing your blocklist for youtube? It has been a challenging one so far.
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Same except skipping AdGuard. Having the DNS live on a pi sounded like fun for me but it gave me stress due to power outages. There is safety in knowing you aren't adding a point of failure that only you know how to solve. I also had issues with adding backup DNS, since a backup DNS would be queried if the pihole blocked the DNS query -- so I would have to maintain two seperate blocklists, one local and one offsite.
DNS issues during power outages is the least of your problems, as chances are your Internet and all your PCs are down as well.
Will it block YouTube ads?
I set up pi-hole recently after hearing about it for years. I was kind of surprised at a lack of really basic features (imo): There isn't any kind of "dry run" or "phantom" mode, where requests are not actually blocked, but appear marked in the log UI as "would be blocked". This is super important because I want to see all the things my home network is doing that would be blocked before I actually hit the big red but…
I think I'll never buy a smart TV what an ultimate ahole move to put ads in there. It's like the Kindles where you have to read these ads before you can open your book (of course you can pay a 1-time fee). Like buying a movie on YouTube and having to watch ads in it or can't see full res unless you're on an allowed device. If UBO actually stops working on Chrome I'll either leave or use pihole. My cheap android phone…
They probably do some tricks that blocking ads with DNS is not possible.