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I also ran into the issue of a wife who didn't like the fact that I had set up a pihole, apparently it blocked a number of shopping websites she was regularly l

I also ran into the issue of a wife who didn't like the fact that I had set up a pihole, apparently it blocked a number of shopping websites she was regularly looking at. At the end of the day I looked at a few of the sites with her and whitelisted a couple of them, but basically told her that (based on the lists I was using) if the pihole was blocking the site entirely then it was either straight spam marketing or the site itself was malicious in some way.

charwalker 4y ago
Similarly, my dad has a few email lists he is part of that route their links through something pihole tends to block, be it tracking or ad based, and I had to work with him to go to the website itself then find the articles he was after. Fully legit otherwise and I eventually found ad whitelisted the tracking domain on his pihole instance. He still says it is vastly worth it vs the ads he sees on his tablet when traveling or at other families homes.