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I would have the same concern, I imagine the Pi-Hole is best for households only inhabited by tech-affine people. I installed the uBlock Origin addon for some f

by Sol- 8y ago

I would have the same concern, I imagine the Pi-Hole is best for households only inhabited by tech-affine people. I installed the uBlock Origin addon for some family members and even there they can be easily confused when a website breaks due to it (occurs rarely, but it happens). At least there I can easily tell them to temporarily disable ad-blocking by pressing that big uBlock button. I don't think it would be feasible for me to explain to them how to temporarily whitelist things on the Pi-Hole.

starquake 8y ago
You can add a button to your Raspberry Pi to temporarily disable all the blocking. Not the best solution but still useful to know I think.
- arnjerobben 8y ago
  Do you have a link to a tutorial?
- nmca 8y ago
  I really like this idea. Make it big and red. Easily done it seems: https://www.hackster.io/marko8904/web-connected-aws-iot-big-red-button-on-raspberry-pi-1b6496 https://www.hackster.io/marko8904/web-connected-aws-iot-big-...
zaarn 8y ago
I don't think that's a problem at all. I did give the family members the password to unlock the block temporarily but after a while they simply stopped using those sites altogether. It's also a big plus for devices that can't adblock themselves (phones, embedded devices, etc.)
spacedgrey 8y ago
For the non-tech-savvy members of the household you can provide a link to the disable API. e.g. Temporarily disable blocking for 60 seconds, http://pihole.lan/admin/api.php?disable=60&auth= http://pihole.lan/admin/api.php?disable=60&auth= . You can also infuriate the teenagers in the household by blocking and unblocking domains at certain times via crontab. e.g. 0 08 * * * /usr/local/bin/pihole -wild --delmode instagram.com youtube.com 0 22 * * * /usr/local/bin/pihole -wild instagram.com youtube.com