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I find pi-hole much better than browser extensions. It just works for all devices/ apps.
by temp8964 5y ago
I find pi-hole much better than browser extensions. It just works for all devices/ apps.
- missedthecue 5y agoI don't want to block ads on every site I go to, and having an extension rather than a DNS sinkhole makes toggling between blocking and not blocking much simpler.
- NegativeLatency 5y agoYou can setup a link to disable pihole for a given number of seconds
- downrightmike 5y agoI find both are needed. It is nice to see that I block a huge amount of data from getting used up by ads when pihole block it. And just in case it gets through ublock. ublock is usually ahead of the more sophisticated attacks.
- defaulty 5y agoHow well does Pi-Hole work for people who aren't technical? My family member gets aggravated when ad blocking breaks a site for them
- temp8964 5y agoI never had a legitimate site breaks by pi-hole. Pi-hole should be the easiest for family members, they don’t need to do anything at all. On most sites, it simply leaves a blank space in where ad supposed to be.
- slivanes 5y agoI found the most frustration came from links in emails not working as intended. For some reason many companies, government agencies, and schools use metrics tracking on emails. Pi-hole has a nice temporarily disable blocking feature on its dashboard to help in those cases. Simple click to whitelist is also available.
- joshschreuder 5y agoIt’s probably not ideal tbh. You can whitelist stuff that’s blocked, but it involves logging into the admin console and whitelisting either manually or via a recently blocked request, easy enough for techies but I wouldn’t back it for non techies. I use a fairly aggressive Pihole list that breaks stuff reasonably often, there may be less strict lists which are “safer” in this regard.
- dpritchett 5y agoPihole frequently breaks online tv like Disney+ and Hulu when viewed on our Roku TV. Preload trackers or ads get stuck and the show will never start.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoI’ve never used pihole, but I’m assuming you could whitelist the Roku’s local ip?
- input_sh 5y agoOf course you can.
- satysin 5y agoSome sites breaking was a complaint my wife had when I set all devices on our network to use the pi-hole. To solve this I setup a Shortcut on her iPhone so she can simply say "hey siri, stop pi-hole" and it will turn off the pi-hole for 5 minutes using a simple web request. The pi-hole turns itself back on after 5 minutes. A bookmark works just as well but she prefers to use Siri as she never remembers where the bookmark is lol. It is mostly on her phone anyway that something doesn't quite work right so Siri was the best solution. I also have Wire Guard setup and our phones configured to connect to it always for mobile data and unknown wifi so all our connections are routed via our home internet connection and via the pi-hole. As I have stupidly fast home internet (10Gbit EPON with free.fr) it works fantastically.
- sabellito 5y agoAlthough that's great too, uBlock has more features than just blocking requests to certain domains.
- Crestwave 5y agoPi-hole is great, but it cannot block all kinds of ads since it relies on DNS redirection. YouTube ads are notorious for this, for example
- ignoramous 5y agoI don't think uBlock Origin can block YouTube ads either?
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYeah and its functionality is also being eroded by apps using things like DoH. I use both but I don't think the network level blocking will work forever.
- josephcsible 5y agoPlease don't use DoH as an evil advertising bogeyman. It's a huge win in the fight against censorship and surveillance, and everything that it lets advertisers do can be equally done by hardcoding an IP address in the app instead.
- topranks 5y agoDoH itself is fine. But to win against “surveillance” you need to make a smart, conscious decision about who you want to give your browsing history to. For me, I’d rather my ISP sees my DNS, than all that data is sent to some American mega-corp keen to hoover up every last datapoint about me they can. My ISP can for the most part look at HTTPS SNI field and see all the domains I access anyway. So switching to say, Google DoH, only means that now Google have that list as well as my ISP.
- atilimcetin 5y agoIf you want dns-level ad blocking, there's also nextdns.io. You can also use it outside of your home network. I'm on their free tier and very happy with them.
- markenqualitaet 5y agoMullvad VPN also has an adblock DNS server. I am not sure, but I think everyone can use it.
- mmwelt 5y agoThat works if you're browsing from a fixed location. By contrast, browser extensions work wherever you are -- at work, in a bus/train, in a hotel, etc.
- DavideNL 5y agoIt is not better, because Pi-hole is limited to Dns based blocking. Ublock origin can block much more content than a pi-hole… So, use both.
- wejick 5y agoone think that I dont like about pi-hole is its impossible to add exception to website I deliberately support.
- OJFord 5y agoNo it isn't? It's entirely list based, it doesn't do anything without a domain being listed to block. Even if a third-party list you've added blocks something you don't want to block, you have an overriding whitelist.
- jimktrains2 5y agoThey mean allowing ads on aites they want to support.
- OJFord 5y agoYes, I know? So don't block (or whitelist to override a third-party list in use) the sites you want to support? What am I missing?
- jimktrains2 5y agoAds are hosted by ad networks that appear on many sites.
- OJFord 5y agoWell sure if they're loaded directly that won't work, but it's hardly Pi-Hole's fault, what could it do?