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PiHole to remove those Roku ads! I have PiHole running on a five dollar Pi Zero. Just sits on a shelf doing its thing on all devices connected to network.

• temp8964 5y ago
  Does it leave a blank space on the home screen? I feel I am fine with the Roku ad in a rectangle box on the side of the home screen.
  • pixxel 5y ago
    Yes it leaves a blank space where ads would otherwise show.
• djrogers 5y ago
  > running on a five dollar Pi Zero. While technically accurate, you also need a $10 SD card, a $3 usb cable, and a $5-10 power brick, so you’re really looking at a $25 solution here.
  • temp8964 5y ago
    I guess SD cards and USB cable don't count, because we all have some extra here and there? I never use SD cards, but I have at least four of them in my drawer...
• AshamedCaptain 5y ago
  PiHole and similar ad-filtering proxies are a very fragile solution. The moment Google just decides to stream ads through the same domain as the "regular" content (e.g. updates, Play Store, etc.), what exactly is the PiHole going to do? This is not a "cat and mouse" game, like in-browser ad-blockers where the advertisers change something then the ad-blockers try to catch that. The in-browser ad-blockers have a lot more flexibility with blocking content since they are, basically, the consumer of that content. With PiHole, there is a point in which PiHole can just DO. NOTHING. to block content. If Google TV fetches its ads/spyware from playstore.google.com (for example), and uses https, what can PiHole do? Not even MitM, because Google will just pin the certificate. And let's not even get started on DNS-over-HTTPS... PiHole and the like are not long-term solutions.
  • pixxel 5y ago
    > The moment Google just decides to stream ads through the same domain as the "regular" content (e.g. updates, Play Store, etc.), what exactly is the PiHole going to do? I don’t use anything Google so your point, whilst true, doesn’t affect me. In fact I use PiHole to block Google and its tentacles from entering my network.