Block ADS On The Internet For Your Entire Family
Block ADS On The Internet For Your Entire Family
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...until your family complains that their favorite site has stopped working.
Pi-Hole these days allows you to create Groups so you can set certain devices to fewer or less restrictive blocklists or just leave their connection untouched entirely. Groups is basically how you solve the problem of it breaking something for someone else.
Source: Pissed off my roommate who I somehow accidentally blocked from using Google to appraise his magic cards or something.
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Hahaha my partner just started not using the wifi and didn’t tell me, I found out when her data ran out 🙄
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I'd recommend setting an ad-blocking preferred DNS if the person isn't overly tech savvy
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I use the OISD list for family members and I haven’t received a single complaint in years.
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I'll definitely give those a spin when I've done a fresh install of pihole 6. I've been hesitant to do so because I don't know how to do a fresh install easily when I've already used unbound to make my pi-hole a recursive DNS server and one of my pi-holes also doubles as an immich server so I have to do a lot of backing up I as of yet have been too lazy to do.
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For months my wife couldn't download podcasts off Spotify only for me to discover it was pihole the entire time.
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Yeah, you always have to account for the Wife Factor with things like this. Good luck convincing your wife to stop clicking on sponsored links on Google, especially when it’s what she’s searching for.
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😂
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It all just depends on the level of blocking you put in place. Basic adblock and malware lists tend to not break much if anything. It's when you get into tracker blocking that some sites break.
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Yeah I run it on my wifi. Yesterday it killed rouvy.com when I wanted to go for a ride. I don’t think it has decreased the number of ads I see either - all devices runs adblockers anyway
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I prefer adguard home, much better UI and updating it is easier...at least compared to last time I tried where i had to SSH in to the pi-hole to update it since it didn't allow it through the web interface like adguard home does. Not a big issue, but still a little annoying compared to just doing it from the web interface.
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i had to SSH in to the pi-hole to update it
You make it sound like a chore instead of a delight. Curious.
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Especially if you've set up key verification for SSH, you don't even have to mess with a password.
Then it's literally just
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Yeah I don't think TUIs are a great way to interface with most things. It's a needlessly outdated method and provides an unnecessary barrier to less technically inclined people, and when a GUI interface is present anyways it just kind of dumb. TUIs are slower to execute things with than GUI 99% of the time, and always less intuitive.
I hate this ridiculous nerd trope of loving TUIs, it's getting old and over used.
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Anyone have any particularly good info about AdGuard re: Russia? My understanding is that the devs are Russian. Seems like they have set things up to explicitly be outside control of the regime, but it makes me worry without some ironclad info that it's safe.
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At this point the ads are winning because its getting much harder to stop them. A well tuned pihole is great for browsing and it is really noticeable when Im away from home. It has to be tuned, blocklists are great but you will definitely be managing the lists yourself. It is SO EASY to do, it is the most user-friendly open-source network tool I have ever used! Sleep on this to your own peril
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look into a VPN to your home network when you leave your house. you can also set it to "on demand" so it automatically turns on when you disconnect from your home wifi.
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I had set up this configuration around 2016 and found it a little clunky. I called it a SkyHole. It was great, and now we have the ability to install DNS profiles on most phones, or configure DNS profiles for PCs such that I use a (“free”) commercial provider and get ad blocking which takes care of 99% of the noise, and don’t have to fuss about with maintaining a dedicated device.
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i’d love to be able to get rid of youtube ads at the network level.
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Not possible at the network level, unfortunately.
On some TVs you can sideload apps that'll do it.
Slightly similar, there is also sponsorblock for TVs, this doesn't need sideloading and is ran on any host on your LAN
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Me too… piHole does not do this unfortunately, especially on anything that isnt a pc.
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What I like about pihole vs. dedicated ad-blockers, is that a pihole can block telemetry as well. There are lists of Microsoft and other data-gatherers you can import, and even if you can't stop the data collection, it dead-ends the attempts to upload it.
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and for your mobile devices you can set up an on-demand VPN to turn on whenever you're not on your home network.
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Better yet, you can setup DoT or DoH, so no need for VPN. It's relatively easy to do with Adguard Home (one needs a domain and a certificate).
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How often do you update the pi
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Read this as block AIDS
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Pihole is great. Been running it for years. It’s almost set-it-and-forget it. There are other ad-blocking services, some free and some not, some with more features but those are usually non-free. Many don’t require the setup that a Raspberry Pi does.
Downsides to Pihole:
People who use your wifi will stay with their old habits of clicking one of the first search results which is usually “sponsored”, an ad, and it will be blocked. People get irritated and it takes them a while to come around.
Raspberry Pis tend to eat SD cards. It’s gotten a lot better and it doesn’t happen as often, but once you get the Pi set up correctly, make a backup mirror of the card so it’s easy to get a new one up and running should the card fail.
The best mobile manager (Pi-Hole Remote) just went non-free for a bunch of features.
It doesn’t block everything. A standard suite of browser plugins for ad- and tracking blockers should be used.
Sometimes a website or service won’t work correctly and you have to sort out whether it’s a browser ad blocker or pihole that’s causing the issue and whitelist the address.
The good stuff-
You can create a VPN on your home LAN, use DDNS, and connect when you’re out and about to get ad-blocking on your mobile. Particularly useful for iphones where they don’t let you have ad-blockers for your browsers.
Customizable blocklists, blacklists and whitelists. There are several user-made lists out there that are useful.
You can easily see what is “phoning home” on your LAN and block it if you want.
Easy to update, easy install on a RPi, and if you install a VNC you can update and manage remotely without Pi-Hole Remote.
It’s free.
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I use Adguard for this purpose. You need a license to access some features. But, it can block ads even on sites which directly serve ads
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How does it compare against a Firewalla?
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I cba managing it on my own, so I just use controld.com
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Hey, another controld user.
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