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Never let the good be the enemy of the perfect :) adding a PiHole will work for all your devices at home, tablets that don't usually leave the house etc. It do

Never let the good be the enemy of the perfect :) adding a PiHole will work for all your devices at home, tablets that don't usually leave the house etc. It doesn't stop you from running adblockers on devices in addition. As it takes about 10 mins to setup it's totally worth trying out.

crispinb 7y ago
I'm tempted, but can you think of anything it adds over device-installed solutions (which all my devices have, and will keep because they all travel)?
- joshvm 7y ago
  Becuase the blocking happens at the router (ish) level, it should also prevent adverts inside applications where you can't run a blocker, eg mobile apps. That doesn't solve the problem when you're out of the house although you can set up your devices to use your pi as a dns server when you're away from home. https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/ https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/
  - crispinb 7y ago
    Fair point as applied to browser-based adblockers. In my case I use Adguard, which works as a proxy on a PC/Mac, or a VPN on android. AFAIK Pi Hole would just be duplicating what I already have. Worth considering though when my current Adguard licences expire.
    - patrickdavey 7y ago
      I'd not heard of adguard, it does sound like duplication. I also quite like it when visitors connect to our network and wonder where their ads went ;)
    - jniles 7y ago
      I also use Adguard (the free DNS resolver) on my phone for roaming, but use the pihole in my local home. Two advantages for me of the pihole are a more pleasant Android experience (none of these Android notifications that apps are running in the background, better battery life, etc), and my ability to the block lists and the frequency with which they update.
- lostlogin 7y ago
  1) The annoying “we have detected that you are using an adblocker” pop ups go away. 2) You get nice graphs. This is surprisingly addictive. I’m just trying to feed it into Grafana now, to make one dashboard to rule them all. 3) You can block other stuff easily, which is handy for sites you don’t want visited accidentally (which is also possible in my adblocker). 4) Removes DHCP and DNS from the crappy ISP router. 5) It’s on a Pi and as mentioned elsewhere here, that somehow makes a chore into something fun.
  - crispinb 7y ago
    Thanks, some good points there - though I'll claim 5 as my own! I can feel a bout of Pi play nearing.

crispinb 7y ago

I'm tempted, but can you think of anything it adds over device-installed solutions (which all my devices have, and will keep because they all travel)?

joshvm 7y ago
Becuase the blocking happens at the router (ish) level, it should also prevent adverts inside applications where you can't run a blocker, eg mobile apps. That doesn't solve the problem when you're out of the house although you can set up your devices to use your pi as a dns server when you're away from home. https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/ https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/
- crispinb 7y ago
  Fair point as applied to browser-based adblockers. In my case I use Adguard, which works as a proxy on a PC/Mac, or a VPN on android. AFAIK Pi Hole would just be duplicating what I already have. Worth considering though when my current Adguard licences expire.
  - patrickdavey 7y ago
    I'd not heard of adguard, it does sound like duplication. I also quite like it when visitors connect to our network and wonder where their ads went ;)
  - jniles 7y ago
    I also use Adguard (the free DNS resolver) on my phone for roaming, but use the pihole in my local home. Two advantages for me of the pihole are a more pleasant Android experience (none of these Android notifications that apps are running in the background, better battery life, etc), and my ability to the block lists and the frequency with which they update.
lostlogin 7y ago
1) The annoying “we have detected that you are using an adblocker” pop ups go away. 2) You get nice graphs. This is surprisingly addictive. I’m just trying to feed it into Grafana now, to make one dashboard to rule them all. 3) You can block other stuff easily, which is handy for sites you don’t want visited accidentally (which is also possible in my adblocker). 4) Removes DHCP and DNS from the crappy ISP router. 5) It’s on a Pi and as mentioned elsewhere here, that somehow makes a chore into something fun.
- crispinb 7y ago
  Thanks, some good points there - though I'll claim 5 as my own! I can feel a bout of Pi play nearing.