Ironically their website has been hugged to death.
I don't think you know what irony means.
Maybe you'd better define it as an "amusing twist".
Pi-hole v6
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#32love pi-hole
we block all meta and X properties from our home network, also ads
and it's self hosted on our own metal
it's a wonderful life
Re: Pi-hole v6
#33I 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 installs games by itself eg. candy crush ugh. My own fault I get it buy a $2K phone instead of $160
Re: Pi-hole v6
#34I 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…
> For my "smart tv" which I begrudgingly have to allow on my network occasionally for software updates
Why install software updates if you don’t use the “smart” features? Our smart tv has been banned from the internet for years.
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#35I've been using Technitium for a couple years and been pretty happy with it https://technitium.com/dns/
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#36I 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…
The way I handled this issue for my family and devices is just by having two SSIDs - one with pihole blocking and one without. If it’s interfering with something me or my wife can just switch to the unblocked network temporarily.
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#37Does anyone know if pihole is ever going to add DoH or similar support natively? I've had such troubles with cloudflared awhile back that I gave up on DoH, but would love to encrypt those queries.
I’m not sure why I’d ever want DoH, I block as much as I can at my firewall and have a canary domain.
I want my devices to use my defined dns sever on my network, not some ad company (and all tech companies eventually become ad companies)
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#38I 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…
> It's also not possible (or not clear) how to have different behavior for different clients
There's a menu item for that: Clients. You create a group, add a client to that group, and configure blocking for that group. To have what you want, you create a group that has just one client in it.
Re: Pi-hole v6
#39I 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…
You can definitely set client groups, either based on CIDR, MAC (if on the same network segment) or individual IP. From there, you can assign different domains and list to the specific groups.
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#40We’ve integrated a new REST API and embedded web server directly into the pihole-FTL binary. This eliminates the need for lighttpd and PHP"
oh noes!