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Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

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Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

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Post by dorianh »

martin_a wrote: post #8
poisonborz wrote: post #2

My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the pro…

Is that your experience? Honest question, because only yesterday, after several years with PiHole and uBlock Origin, I found that a Shopify shop wasn't working for me. But that's probably the only issue I encountered after all those years...

Unfortunately yes, there are features on big websites which just don't work.

Now every time, I have an issue with any website, my first instinct is to turn off pi-hole. Most of the time, pi-hole is not the even the issue, but sometimes it is. It's annoying to browse the internet while constantly thinking "Maybe there is an issue on my side".

Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

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Post by qwertimus »

poisonborz wrote: post #2

My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the pro…

I've had the most luck with OISD as the blocklist; others have the exact problems you describe (in fact all other blocklists I've tested have had frequent issues). Since changing, I've had maybe 2 sites that didn't play nice with the filtering. These issues are not inherent to network-level blockers, but the configuration of those blockers.

Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

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Post by Marsymars »

davitocan wrote: post #26
martin_a wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that your experience? Honest question, because only yesterday, after several years with PiHole and uBlock Origin, I found that a Shopify shop wasn't working for me. But that's probably the only issue I encountered after all those years...

Home Depot search breaks for me when using Blocky, and is the only consistent issue I observe.

Home Depot is the most fragile website I'm forced to deal with. It regularly breaks in novel ways for me when it can't load some random dependency that it doesn't actually need the functionality from.

Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

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Post by mrbluecoat »

> Blocking of ... response IP addresses (against IP lists)

So blocky can block IP addresses? If so it's more powerful than traditional DNS blockers like Pi-Hole and AdGuard Home.

> Logging of DNS queries per day / per client in CSV format or MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL database

May want to include a time series database, like InfluxDB

For those needing layer 7 control, https://github.com/andybalholm/redwood is a nice Go option.

Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

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Post by a_subsystem »

girishso wrote: post #30

Can't block Youtube shorts with these DNS adblockers, I know I can use browser extensions on a computer (and I do), but I really want to block shorts on iOS/Android apps. Tried the squid https proxy rabbit hole, but could not get it to work with mobile devices. Any hints?

I use Orion on ios.

Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

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Post by radicality »

Marsymars wrote: post #44
davitocan wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Home Depot search breaks for me when using Blocky, and is the only consistent issue I observe.

Home Depot is the most fragile website I'm forced to deal with. It regularly breaks in novel ways for me when it can't load some random dependency that it doesn't actually need the functionality from.

And it doesn’t load at all from outside the US! I once wanted to purchase before coming back, to learn I need to vpn back in to the US to order something. Crazy.

Re: Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

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Post by avel »

poisonborz wrote: post #2

My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the pro…

It's not that tedious.

In adguard home you have a switch on/off in the web UI. You can also expose that switch to homeassistant.

And there are some other good ideas in this thread as well for android and ios.

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