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Ask HN: Is there a consumer-friendly Pi-Hole?
Does a consumer-friendly version of a Pi-Hole, one that would be easy for someone non-technical to set up, exist? If not, is there a reason why?
- ohiovr 6y agoCould a coin be made by selling a micro sd card with it set up on it?
- pensatoio 6y agoPi-hole is only effective when paired with NAT rules on your router to capture all DNS lookups. Maybe there are routers with Pi-hole installed? I haven’t looked. I’ll bet there are guides for installing Pi-hole on edge routers, for example. You could then give the router to someone, ready to go.
- approxim8ion 6y agoIf by Pi-Hole you mean a host-based adblocking solution, NextDNS is perhaps the most consumer-friendly. I am a paying customer myself and highly recommend it. But if you mean a _local_ host-based adblocking hardware solution for your entire network then I don't know, unfortunately.
- lq0000 6y agoI quite easily set up a DNS blacklist on my USG. Still not quite what I'd call consumer friendly, but only a couple of console commands as opposed to setting up the entire pi. Instructions here: https://community.ui.com/questions/HowTo-Ad-blocking-using-dnsmasq-d-instead-of-etc-hosts/1598a96d-28af-4f3f-ab96-97bccdb897b3 https://community.ui.com/questions/HowTo-Ad-blocking-using-d...
- rexpi0 6y agohttps://winstonprivacy.com/ https://winstonprivacy.com/ is the only thing I’m aware of that’s remotely similar to Pi-Hole; but it comes with a subscription cost.
- djimu 6y agoI have heard of eBlocker but haven't personality tried it.