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- It blocks tracking / ads on devices where you can’t edit a hosts list (your phone) - It works for your entire network (everyone in your household)
by cj 7y ago
- It blocks tracking / ads on devices where you can’t edit a hosts list (your phone)
- It works for your entire network (everyone in your household)
- saagarjha 7y ago> It blocks tracking / ads on devices where you can’t edit a hosts list (your phone) Right, but you can use adblockers on them. > It works for your entire network (everyone in your household) Fair, but as I mentioned it stops working the moment you step out, which I assume you do with your phone?
- Bootvis 7y ago>> It blocks tracking / ads on devices where you can’t edit a hosts list (your phone) > Right, but you can use adblockers on them. The iPhone doesn't support ad blocking.
- saagarjha 7y agoIt very much does.
- cj 7y agoElaborate? I'm not aware of a way to block in-app ads, or ads served when using Chrome / Safari / Firefox on iOS without using a DNS based ad blocker.
- saagarjha 7y agoYou can block ads in Safari or apps using SFSafariViewController by installing a content blocker. You can use a VPN-based blocker to perform DNS blocking on-device.
- miked85 7y agoDevices such as Amazon Fire, Apple TV, your television, DVR, etc, etc do not support installing ad blockers.
- saagarjha 7y agoNone of those really have a browser on them, though…
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- cj 7y agoHalf the point of pihole is to block trackers (not just ads). That means blocking Google Analytics, Crashlytics, and whatever other unnecessary analytics / reporting that apps on Apple TV, your smart TV, etc use.
- Bootvis 7y agoI didn't know this and I now see I can block ads on Safari on iOS which is great. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for Firefox on iOS.
- mcv 7y ago> "It works for your entire network (everyone in your household)" I guess whether this is the killer feature or makes it suck depends on whether you've got a lot of devices and family members in your household that you can now easily protect with a single solution, or you're a single person with a laptop that spends half the time (or more) outside your home. It's fantastic for the first group, useless for the second.
- cj 7y agoAlso, you don't have to choose one or the other. I use both. Ad blockers and Pi Hole each have pros/cons, but using them together gives you the best of both worlds (with the only downside being the overhead of running an adblocking extension or overhead of managing/updating a hosts file block list)