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I tried Safari for the first time in a while a few days ago and I agree with you. But the amount of ads, videos, popups, and sticky crap all over the screen mak
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
I tried Safari for the first time in a while a few days ago and I agree with you. But the amount of ads, videos, popups, and sticky crap all over the screen makes reading web sites impossible. I didn't realize just how bad the web browsing experience had become without an ad blocker. I'm rebuilding my Pihole at the moment so this nonsense will go away soon. But it's really, really bad to be without it.
- galad87 7y agoBut you can still use ad-blockers in Safari… it's not like now it's impossible to block ads in Safari…
- whalesalad 7y agoYeah, I was on vacation recently and didn’t have my pihole. It was also eye opening for me too. Before my next trip I want to get a VPN configured so that when I am remote I can 1, access my home network/lab and 2. Take advantage of pihole (not to mention encrypting my traffic)
- dreamcompiler 7y agoI'm putting my next pihole on a cloud VPS so I can use it from anywhere. It's an experiment; I want to see how long I can keep it from becoming part of a botnet. Ideas welcome.
- whalesalad 7y agoIt’s totally doable. You want to run a VPN server on the host so that you can connect to it and have your network traffic go through it. You could tunnel all traffic thru the VPN, or only the DNS traffic. Then you could have the pihole bound to the local interface only, not accepting connections from outside that host. I’m making it sound easier than it is, but it’s still pretty straightforward. There’s actually a doc on the official pihole site that explains how to do this but I haven’t read it completely.