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Just for the sake of argument - to block trackers that are built into other software, eg. chat clients and some such.
by huhtenberg 7y ago
Just for the sake of argument - to block trackers that are built into other software, eg. chat clients and some such.
- op00to 7y agoI mean, ok. But you're allowing a chat client to run code on your PC... in the case I saw it was sudo. You can do a shitload more with sudo than you can with a browser extension. I still don't get it.
- ignoramous 7y ago> I still don't get it. Think of it like a DNS-layer firewall. Plenty ways to get circumvent it, but works wonderfully, nonetheless. > in the case I saw it was sudo This isn't an all-in-one security product. Just one way to firewall trackers, ads, and whatever else one wants.
- lonelappde 7y agoPi-hole already does that. You can run pi-hole on your local OS with Docker. It's 5 minutes to install.
- brigandish 7y agoAside from competition being a good thing, Docker itself introduces attack vectors.
- swinglock 7y agoSurely not more so than curling scripts from the web and executing them as root, which is the exact install procedure described for this program.
- mega_tux 7y agoIMHO, it's way easier to check the script content before sudoing and validate its security than validate the Docker ecosystem.