lets talk pi-hole

[michaelb]

I have a pi sitting around somewhere and plan to try this, so I appreciate the discussion and encouragement.

[MrNoBody]

It seems if I can get PIA-OpenVPN to work on my ASUS router, I won't need pi-hole.
So far it's a no go. Awaiting reply from PIA tech.

[mattkime]

space-time wrote:
do it. I have not see any websites complaining about it.

In private mode, many websites complain.

With Pi-hole, I just get some small empty spaces instead of ads.

Do it.

Do it.

Do it.

enough said.

SO FAR SO GOOD!

[space-time]

just be aware that some ads at the beginning of videos might still play. Also on cnn.com there are some ads from bank of america or lendingtree that will still appear, since those are hosted on amazon, not on specific as servers.

I think this is only temporary until ad companies will figure out and move their ads to AWS and similar domains we can't block.

Enjoy it wile it lasts.

[space-time]

also after a few days, remove the Pi-Hole and go back to regular browsing, just to see how bad it was without it.

[GGD]

space-time wrote:
also after a few days, remove the Pi-Hole and go back to regular browsing, just to see how bad it was without it.

How do you deal with a laptop that you use for travel, pi-hole seems like a great solution when you're home, but once you leave your home pi-holed network ads will return. So it seems like you still need some browser based ad blocking.

[mattkime]

hrm, taboola content still seems to get through. items loaded from a taboola domain.

[space-time]

GGD wrote:
[quote=space-time]
also after a few days, remove the Pi-Hole and go back to regular browsing, just to see how bad it was without it.

How do you deal with a laptop that you use for travel, pi-hole seems like a great solution when you're home, but once you leave your home pi-holed network ads will return. So it seems like you still need some browser based ad blocking.

not there yet. I plan to install a VPN to use my own DNS server at home. here are instructions at pi-hole.net but I don't travel much right now, so I put that on the back burner.

I wish I had a pi-hole at work though.

[space-time]

mattkime wrote:
hrm, taboola content still seems to get through. items loaded from a taboola domain.

I have not seen taboola, I hate that domain. Could be a cached DNS, or you could add taboola to the blacklist.

[mattkime]

I'm a little dense - does including or excluding a domain block it? looking at https://britannic.github.io/blacklist/#h...-a-domains