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Nowaways I put a pihole in every home of my family members. Together with unchecky (windows) my calls dropped by 95% or so.

johnpowell 7y ago
I use a pihole at home too. It is funny since I have gotten a few texts from my roommates about their phones being infected when they aren't connected to the wifi here. They think it is a virus and I have to tell them that is what the internet normally looks like.
- bobajeff 7y ago
  I wouldn't rule out an infection in that case. I have a friend who has phone malware that shows ads about every minute or so. I offered to help factory reset it (last I checked everything she wants to keep is automatically backed up to the cloud) but we just haven't gotten around to it. And yes she really does use her phone regularly.
neuronic 7y ago
What lists are you using, which avoiding? My use of pihole constantly disrupted basic services such as Sonos. I can certainly find the URL culprits and resolve it, but I got tired of constantly doing so...
- johnpowell 7y ago
  I just use the default. We have Sonos stuff too and it works without doing anything special.
- Spare_account 7y ago
  I have Sonos kit and a pi-hole. I use the default lists plus the ticked lists from this site: https://firebog.net/ https://firebog.net/ I have no issues with my Sonos equipment - I use a local MP3 library, a Spotify subscription and TuneIn Radio all without any issues. What problems did you have?
  - neuronic 7y ago
    In case of Sonos - the speakers disconnected all the time. Taking off pihole completely solved the issue. I did not check for possible problematic URLs on the blacklists though.
    - Spare_account 7y ago
      What were you using for DHCP? I'm no Sonos engineer but that sounds like it might been network level rather than DNS. I have pi-hole doing DHCP as well and created DHCP reservations for my Sonos speakers just to be safe (although it isn't necessary and I never had issues when they were regular DHCP clients of my ISPs router).
hendersoon 7y ago
DNS adblockers like Pihole are markedly _less_ effective than the declarative content blocking proposed for Chrome and currently in-use by Safari. They do have the advantage of covering your entire LAN and working inside apps, so they are definitely useful. But they don't replace real adblockers, or even the castrated ones Google is pushing on its users.
yyyk 7y ago
It won't work for long. With eSNI and DoH you won't be able to use DNS for blocking, and IP is very easy to switch around, especially in IPv6 but even in IPv4 (ad networks have money, shortage is not a problem for them).

johnpowell 7y ago

I use a pihole at home too. It is funny since I have gotten a few texts from my roommates about their phones being infected when they aren't connected to the wifi here. They think it is a virus and I have to tell them that is what the internet normally looks like.

bobajeff 7y ago
I wouldn't rule out an infection in that case. I have a friend who has phone malware that shows ads about every minute or so. I offered to help factory reset it (last I checked everything she wants to keep is automatically backed up to the cloud) but we just haven't gotten around to it. And yes she really does use her phone regularly.

neuronic 7y ago

What lists are you using, which avoiding? My use of pihole constantly disrupted basic services such as Sonos. I can certainly find the URL culprits and resolve it, but I got tired of constantly doing so...

johnpowell 7y ago
I just use the default. We have Sonos stuff too and it works without doing anything special.
Spare_account 7y ago
I have Sonos kit and a pi-hole. I use the default lists plus the ticked lists from this site: https://firebog.net/ https://firebog.net/ I have no issues with my Sonos equipment - I use a local MP3 library, a Spotify subscription and TuneIn Radio all without any issues. What problems did you have?
- neuronic 7y ago
  In case of Sonos - the speakers disconnected all the time. Taking off pihole completely solved the issue. I did not check for possible problematic URLs on the blacklists though.
  - Spare_account 7y ago
    What were you using for DHCP? I'm no Sonos engineer but that sounds like it might been network level rather than DNS. I have pi-hole doing DHCP as well and created DHCP reservations for my Sonos speakers just to be safe (although it isn't necessary and I never had issues when they were regular DHCP clients of my ISPs router).

hendersoon 7y ago

DNS adblockers like Pihole are markedly _less_ effective than the declarative content blocking proposed for Chrome and currently in-use by Safari. They do have the advantage of covering your entire LAN and working inside apps, so they are definitely useful. But they don't replace real adblockers, or even the castrated ones Google is pushing on its users.

yyyk 7y ago

It won't work for long. With eSNI and DoH you won't be able to use DNS for blocking, and IP is very easy to switch around, especially in IPv6 but even in IPv4 (ad networks have money, shortage is not a problem for them).