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Does using a Pi hole break any websites? I'm curious if any websites use JS to check if the ad was successfully loaded.

jachee 8y ago
It does. But not many. Most notably CVS.com who serve some of their JS from holed sites. Fortunately working around is as easy as going to http://pi.hole/admin http://pi.hole/admin, hitting "disable for 30 seconds" and reloading. My experience since installing has been overwhelmingly positive. [Edit: pi.hole is http not https.]
drexlspivey 8y ago
You can ad your own adlists by editing /etc/pihole/adlists.list. There are a lot of curated lists with domains circulating the internet for example https://v.firebog.net/hosts/ https://v.firebog.net/hosts/. I found that with the default lists it runs very smoothly but if you start adding a lot of domains it might break some sites. If you break a site you can always whitelist it or disable blocking for a while through the web interface.
city41 8y ago
Some sites detect you are ad blocking. Most just say “please disable your ad blocker” but some sites refuse to show content.
tgbugs 8y ago
I run ublock, privacy badger, and noscript in firefox in addition to my pihole. Unlike the local in browser solutions pihole will sometimes cause extremely long hangs on poorly engineered sites that are hard to distinguish from network connectivity issues (because in a sense they are intentional network connectivity issues). For example, the chrome web store hangs because google essentially requires you to allow ssl.google-analytics.com and has a multi-minute timeout set (just checked and it is 140 seconds when trying to retrieve ga.js). After a while you learn to recognize when a site is having pihole issues and you go check the log.
lostlogin 8y ago
At home with a block list of 1 million I’ve had to whitelist Mail Chimp (irony not missed), and Facebook doesn’t work properly. I haven’t fixed FB.

It does. But not many. Most notably CVS.com who serve some of their JS from holed sites. Fortunately working around is as easy as going to http://pi.hole/admin http://pi.hole/admin, hitting "disable for 30 seconds" and reloading. My experience since installing has been overwhelmingly positive. [Edit: pi.hole is http not https.]

drexlspivey 8y ago

You can ad your own adlists by editing /etc/pihole/adlists.list. There are a lot of curated lists with domains circulating the internet for example https://v.firebog.net/hosts/ https://v.firebog.net/hosts/. I found that with the default lists it runs very smoothly but if you start adding a lot of domains it might break some sites. If you break a site you can always whitelist it or disable blocking for a while through the web interface.

city41 8y ago

Some sites detect you are ad blocking. Most just say “please disable your ad blocker” but some sites refuse to show content.

tgbugs 8y ago

I run ublock, privacy badger, and noscript in firefox in addition to my pihole. Unlike the local in browser solutions pihole will sometimes cause extremely long hangs on poorly engineered sites that are hard to distinguish from network connectivity issues (because in a sense they are intentional network connectivity issues). For example, the chrome web store hangs because google essentially requires you to allow ssl.google-analytics.com and has a multi-minute timeout set (just checked and it is 140 seconds when trying to retrieve ga.js). After a while you learn to recognize when a site is having pihole issues and you go check the log.

lostlogin 8y ago

At home with a block list of 1 million I’ve had to whitelist Mail Chimp (irony not missed), and Facebook doesn’t work properly. I haven’t fixed FB.