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Is this substantially better than using ublock origin? I feel like my browsing experience is pretty good right now, and I'm uncertain what the benefits to upgra

Is this substantially better than using ublock origin? I feel like my browsing experience is pretty good right now, and I'm uncertain what the benefits to upgrading are.

bun_at_work 7y ago
It really depends on what you want/need. The Pi-hole blocks ad traffic by blocking DNS requests to known advertisement URLs. Ublock Origin works great in your browser. However, what about that app on your phone that plays an ad every time you open it? What if you use a mobile browser that doesn't have extensions (Chrome on mobile doesn't). It really comes down to where you want to block ads. Also, I don't know if Ublock Origin actually blocks the ad requests or just prevents them from loading, but if it's the latter, then you can reduce traffic with Pi-hole as well.
prab97 7y ago
You need to setup ublock origin on every browser on every device. With pihole, all your devices automatically get adblocking, even your friends coming home and connecting to your wifi get the ad blocking advantage without anything to do on their part.
jeroenhd 7y ago
No. But it works on all devices in your network (phone, computer, smart TV, WiFi connected dishwasher, etc.). I've never really understood how much tracking some apps on my phone did until I saw the graph showing lookups to Facebook's and Google's servers. In the middle of the night, a bunch of apps started trying to reach some tracking domain, something I would never have noticed if it wasn't for the graphing feature. One way I've noticed the difference with and without pihole is that most apps on my phone become ad free when I connect to my home network. On most phones ad blockers exist, but those are just another layer of software that needs to be woken when the phone wakes from deep sleep. I use pihole + uBlock in Firefox with tracking protection (on both mobile and PC) for my browsing, but Pihole saves me the effort of finding a reliable Android system ad blocker that's reasonably power efficient. I'm considering also using it on my laptop as a VM to get the same features on the go.
proxygeek 7y ago
Ublock origin, uMatrix etc are pretty solid on browser based stuff. But piHole can be used for blocking device telemetry. From installed softwares is the OS itself

Is this substantially better than using ublock origin? I feel like my browsing experience is pretty good right now, and I'm uncertain what the benefits to upgrading are.

bun_at_work 7y ago

It really depends on what you want/need. The Pi-hole blocks ad traffic by blocking DNS requests to known advertisement URLs. Ublock Origin works great in your browser. However, what about that app on your phone that plays an ad every time you open it? What if you use a mobile browser that doesn't have extensions (Chrome on mobile doesn't). It really comes down to where you want to block ads. Also, I don't know if Ublock Origin actually blocks the ad requests or just prevents them from loading, but if it's the latter, then you can reduce traffic with Pi-hole as well.

prab97 7y ago

You need to setup ublock origin on every browser on every device. With pihole, all your devices automatically get adblocking, even your friends coming home and connecting to your wifi get the ad blocking advantage without anything to do on their part.

jeroenhd 7y ago

No. But it works on all devices in your network (phone, computer, smart TV, WiFi connected dishwasher, etc.). I've never really understood how much tracking some apps on my phone did until I saw the graph showing lookups to Facebook's and Google's servers. In the middle of the night, a bunch of apps started trying to reach some tracking domain, something I would never have noticed if it wasn't for the graphing feature. One way I've noticed the difference with and without pihole is that most apps on my phone become ad free when I connect to my home network. On most phones ad blockers exist, but those are just another layer of software that needs to be woken when the phone wakes from deep sleep. I use pihole + uBlock in Firefox with tracking protection (on both mobile and PC) for my browsing, but Pihole saves me the effort of finding a reliable Android system ad blocker that's reasonably power efficient. I'm considering also using it on my laptop as a VM to get the same features on the go.

proxygeek 7y ago

Ublock origin, uMatrix etc are pretty solid on browser based stuff. But piHole can be used for blocking device telemetry. From installed softwares is the OS itself