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I have Pi-Hole on the network that every device in the house runs through, with extra blocklists and a year or so of manual tweaking, that covers most stuff. I

I have Pi-Hole on the network that every device in the house runs through, with extra blocklists and a year or so of manual tweaking, that covers most stuff. I also run ad block plugins just in case, don't allow commercial TV (they only watch Netflix or ABC Kids app), and that pretty much covers everything for our family. It's also just a thing we keep in mind and work around in life. We won't use any service that has ads, or any site that finds ways around the Pi Hole, or watch shows/movies with heavy product placement, etc etc. It's just part of mine and my wife's core beliefs (privacy in general) so we just guide our kids towards "good" content and taught them from the minute they could understand, that "ads are bad, we don't like ads".

masonic 8y ago
don't allow commercial TV (they only watch Netflix or ABC Kids app How are Netflix and ABC Kids not "commercial"? Even PBS is "commercial", given the growing practice of underwriter ads.
- princetman 8y ago
  They probably meant TV shows with commercial break. Not sure about ABC but Netflix you can watch uninterrupted without ads.
- elsjaako 8y ago
  I'm guessing they mean the other ABC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corpor...
a_c 8y ago
Can a pi-hole run without a raspberry-pi? I have a machine kept on all the time at home. Tried setting up pi-hole on docker with no veil.
- Rychard 8y ago
  It sure can. I have piHole running inside a virtual machine (Ubuntu 18.04).
  - craftyguy 8y ago
    What does the virtual/physical network configuration look like? Are you routing all traffic into a physical server, then through a vnet/VM, and back out some other physical interface on the server?
    - Rychard 8y ago
      To be clear: not all traffic has to be routed through it, just DNS. All that I had to do was assign a static IP address to the MAC address of the VM network interface, and configure my router's DHCP to hand out that static IP for DNS. It's all done over a singular ethernet connection between my router and the server; the amount of traffic is very minimal.
- blackfawn 8y ago
  Did you try rolling your own or did you use https://hub.docker.com/r/pihole/pihole/ https://hub.docker.com/r/pihole/pihole/ ?

masonic 8y ago

don't allow commercial TV (they only watch Netflix or ABC Kids app How are Netflix and ABC Kids not "commercial"? Even PBS is "commercial", given the growing practice of underwriter ads.

princetman 8y ago
They probably meant TV shows with commercial break. Not sure about ABC but Netflix you can watch uninterrupted without ads.
elsjaako 8y ago
I'm guessing they mean the other ABC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corpor...

a_c 8y ago

Can a pi-hole run without a raspberry-pi? I have a machine kept on all the time at home. Tried setting up pi-hole on docker with no veil.

Rychard 8y ago
It sure can. I have piHole running inside a virtual machine (Ubuntu 18.04).
- craftyguy 8y ago
  What does the virtual/physical network configuration look like? Are you routing all traffic into a physical server, then through a vnet/VM, and back out some other physical interface on the server?
  - Rychard 8y ago
    To be clear: not all traffic has to be routed through it, just DNS. All that I had to do was assign a static IP address to the MAC address of the VM network interface, and configure my router's DHCP to hand out that static IP for DNS. It's all done over a singular ethernet connection between my router and the server; the amount of traffic is very minimal.
blackfawn 8y ago
Did you try rolling your own or did you use https://hub.docker.com/r/pihole/pihole/ https://hub.docker.com/r/pihole/pihole/ ?