Pro-tip: pi-hole will eat SD cards in a rpi if you enable logging. Use industrial flash (e.g., seissbit) to avoid a headache every six months.
Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
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#242I run pihole on Raspberry Pi with recommended block lists and it’s been an absolute pleasure. Raspberry Pi runs with a static IP I changed DNS settings the devices I want to go through pihole.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
On similar note there are scripts which will enable host-based ad blocking via DNS for other open source router firmware like DDWRT, Tomato, Asus WRT etc.[1] But I presume Pi-hole has automatic updates to lists, data visualisations, better community support than the routers with open source firmwares which are often quite bug-ridden (not to belittle the effort though). [1]: https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Ad_b…
> "data visualisations" Those visualizations on the pi-hole look great indeed! > "Pi-hole has automatic updates to lists, [...] better community support than the routers with open source firmwares which are often quite bug-ridden (not to belittle the effort though). " OpenWRT/adblock auto-updates lists too, and I can't speak for DD-WRT or Tomato, but I've been pleasantly surprised by the support and quality I met usi…
Thanks, my experience is with DDWRT & Tomato; though the developers had done a great job at bringing features found in expensive routers to cheap ones the bug fixes (especially security vulnerabilities) elude older models.
Where as 100$ routers with factory firmware nowadays get security updates quite regularly.
Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
#244Pro-tip: pi-hole will eat SD cards in a rpi if you enable logging. Use industrial flash (e.g., seissbit) to avoid a headache every six months.
If you don't care about persistent logs, you can mount the /var/log directory on tmpfs. For example, add to your /etc/fstab:
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
#245Pi-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 just run it on an ubuntu lxc guest on my home server. Works like a treat, gets backed-up like the other services and easy to replicate.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
What threat model does concealing DNS but not indirecting traffic via Tor address, given that Tor can also tunnel DNS? Cloudflare's not wrong that the DNS requests are hidden, but many classes of observer who could read your DNS request could also see you connect to the resting host? Follow up question, do you trust CloudFlare not to manipulate the results of DNS more or less than Google?
Cloudflare has also rolled out ESNI ( https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/ ) which would mean someone reading your traffic would only be able to tell that you're connecting to a cloudflare IP address. However be unable to determine which specific site you were accessing.
What does that accomplish?
As opposed to Tor use, specifically?
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
Problem is you don’t know what’s reasonable and what’s not. It’s not based on how it looks. If may look reasonable and harmless but still send your IP and browser fingerprint to surveillance ads networks.
That's true. I suppose there's a certain amount of trust required. I really only ever disable it on sites that have a good track record with security and provide me enough value. There is risk involved though.
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#248Previous discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19258717
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
What type of overhead is associated with this? Are you experiencing an increase in server costs? What about the resources it takes to build those relationships, maintain the content, or manage the infrastructure? I'm very interested in learning more...
I'm also wondering how revenue compares. Every one clearly seems to think that "perosnalized" ads are worth more; can you offer any insight into if you make more or less with personalized vs your approach? People seem to have forgotten that users are most likely to be interested in what they are currently reading, because it is what their mind is currently focused on.
You can get a sense of advertising fees by looking at comparable newspaper ads and industry trade magazines. Even take a look at billboard or radio ads. Custom ads will be an order of magnitude higher that what you get from Google.