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Pihole is still a really nice fire and forget solution for your network. It costs nearly nothing and you outsource the question about what to block to the lists

Pihole is still a really nice fire and forget solution for your network. It costs nearly nothing and you outsource the question about what to block to the lists they source. A network-based blocker will also block your OS’ bad behavior, such as calls to telemetry domains. And then, you know, don’t use Chrome. A browser from an ad company will always be compromised by design.

thretgreegre 7y ago
that IS a solution, but it requires another piece of hardware. I believe there must be a solution that could provide the same via virtual network driver(like VirtualBox).
- hprotagonist 7y ago
  LittleSnitch?
- cipherboy 7y ago
  If you wanted to go that route (and don't care about the small performance hit or are willing to dual boot to play games)... Try QubesOS and pihole together: - https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ - https://blog.tufarolo.eu/how-to-configure-pihole-in-qubesos-proxyvm/ https://blog.tufarolo.eu/how-to-configure-pihole-in-qubesos-... It should let you do exactly that: local pihole to monitor and block traffic from all VMs. (I haven't tried it. I went the route of a separate pihole enabled network behind my cable modem as I have other devices I'd like to block traffic on too.)
- iwalton3 7y ago
  You can install a hosts file on your computer blacklisting many of the domains in the PI hole system, although if you use the largest blacklists you'll probably have performance issues. You can also install a local DNS server like dnsmasq and set that up to block websites. There are also external DNS providers that provide blacklisting similar to PI Hole. (Although then you are trusting the DNS provider not to track you.)
- SamPatt 7y ago
  True, but the hardware is cheap and extremely simple to setup. The entire process took me maybe one hour and cost probably $40 if you include the SD card and Ethernet cable too.
- beatgammit 7y ago
  You can install Pihole on whatever device you want. The difficulty is having it be up 24/7 since it going down will break your access to the internet, so a separate device is usually simpler.

thretgreegre 7y ago

that IS a solution, but it requires another piece of hardware. I believe there must be a solution that could provide the same via virtual network driver(like VirtualBox).

hprotagonist 7y ago
LittleSnitch?
cipherboy 7y ago
If you wanted to go that route (and don't care about the small performance hit or are willing to dual boot to play games)... Try QubesOS and pihole together: - https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ - https://blog.tufarolo.eu/how-to-configure-pihole-in-qubesos-proxyvm/ https://blog.tufarolo.eu/how-to-configure-pihole-in-qubesos-... It should let you do exactly that: local pihole to monitor and block traffic from all VMs. (I haven't tried it. I went the route of a separate pihole enabled network behind my cable modem as I have other devices I'd like to block traffic on too.)
iwalton3 7y ago
You can install a hosts file on your computer blacklisting many of the domains in the PI hole system, although if you use the largest blacklists you'll probably have performance issues. You can also install a local DNS server like dnsmasq and set that up to block websites. There are also external DNS providers that provide blacklisting similar to PI Hole. (Although then you are trusting the DNS provider not to track you.)
SamPatt 7y ago
True, but the hardware is cheap and extremely simple to setup. The entire process took me maybe one hour and cost probably $40 if you include the SD card and Ethernet cable too.
beatgammit 7y ago
You can install Pihole on whatever device you want. The difficulty is having it be up 24/7 since it going down will break your access to the internet, so a separate device is usually simpler.