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I am interested in what happens when you get to a website that insists you turn off your ad blocker. What happens with Pi Hole? Also I would prefer to just run

I am interested in what happens when you get to a website that insists you turn off your ad blocker. What happens with Pi Hole? Also I would prefer to just run Privoxy as I have Ubuntu running and can just use that instead of some extra gadget. What happens with Privoxy if you are getting a turn off ad blocker message? Currently I use 'cat block' or the 'EFF' blocker, depending on what computer I am on, those give you an option to turn off your ad blocker which I find myself doing from time to time, it would be nice to have this option with Privoxy.

theandrewbailey 7y ago
You can disable blocking temporarily (a few seconds to a few minutes) in the PiHole dashboard.
- jdietrich 7y ago
  That sounds rather inconvenient compared to the two-click option in uBlock Origin.
  - kasey_junk 7y ago
    its literally a 2 click option in pi-hole.
  - tech4all 7y ago
    It is actually incredibly easy if you use a password manager and have your local pi-hole credentials all saved. Maybe 4 clicks and I've disabled both my pi-holes (primary and backup) for 15 minutes. I've been running 2 pi-holes for almost a year. I've been surprised at how well they work and how few sites have issues. I've only encountered 2 problems: 1) Administering Google Ads... Of course it needs to be disabled. 2) Oddly enough Lowes website has very odd online ordering issues unless you disable the pi-holes.
  - nkrisc 7y ago
    It's maybe a few extra seconds.
nkrisc 7y ago
In addition to the temporary disable option available at /admin on your pi-hole, you can whitelist domains if you really need to access them and you can't with blocking.
deftnerd 7y ago
There is a firefox extension you can use to temporarily disable the PiHole blocking on your network with one click so you don't have to visit your PiHole webpage and do it manually. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-pi-hole https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-pi-hol...

theandrewbailey 7y ago

You can disable blocking temporarily (a few seconds to a few minutes) in the PiHole dashboard.

jdietrich 7y ago
That sounds rather inconvenient compared to the two-click option in uBlock Origin.
- kasey_junk 7y ago
  its literally a 2 click option in pi-hole.
- tech4all 7y ago
  It is actually incredibly easy if you use a password manager and have your local pi-hole credentials all saved. Maybe 4 clicks and I've disabled both my pi-holes (primary and backup) for 15 minutes. I've been running 2 pi-holes for almost a year. I've been surprised at how well they work and how few sites have issues. I've only encountered 2 problems: 1) Administering Google Ads... Of course it needs to be disabled. 2) Oddly enough Lowes website has very odd online ordering issues unless you disable the pi-holes.
- nkrisc 7y ago
  It's maybe a few extra seconds.

nkrisc 7y ago

In addition to the temporary disable option available at /admin on your pi-hole, you can whitelist domains if you really need to access them and you can't with blocking.

deftnerd 7y ago

There is a firefox extension you can use to temporarily disable the PiHole blocking on your network with one click so you don't have to visit your PiHole webpage and do it manually. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-pi-hole https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-pi-hol...