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I installed pi-hole in my house just for this.

by xyos 4y ago

dmix 4y ago
How much time did it take to research + install a Pi-hole?
- briffle 4y ago
  I used a pi-hole, but wanted it to work outside my home as well. NextDNS uses many of the same blocklists, and I happily pay $20/year for it. Also has apps for devices that roam from the house. https://nextdns.io/pricing https://nextdns.io/pricing
- amag 4y ago
  They try to make it super easy: https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ and I have no recollection of encountering any issues. OTOH I am a software engineer working with Linux and network related stuff. The issues comes later when some pages may break. When that happens you need to stop bashing your computer and add some URLs to the Pi-hole whitelist (or skip those parts of the web...). In my experience there has been few issues. Some enterprisey stuff my wife needed for work depended on some oracle tracking URLs that were blocked if I remember correctly.
  - wil421 4y ago
    Can you write exceptions for IPs within your network? I’d like to exclude our work laptops from filtering. Both laptops have static IPs on my network. Reading more I could just change my devices dns settings to use what I want. A little more cumbersome and requires local admin on windows.
    - happyopossum 4y ago
      You can create IP based exceptions, or you can point those machines at another dns resolver. Either works.
DrBoring 4y ago
I configured my kid's tablet to use AdGuard's public DNS https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html No more in-app ads. Strange thing, I tried it on my FireTV to block youtube ads, but it didn't work. I wouldn't be surprised if the FireTV monkies around with user settings. The other explanation could be that youtube uses the same hostname for videos and ads, so the DNS blocking can't distinguish. I ended up side-loading a 3rd party YT client that doesn't play ads. https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/ https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/

I installed pi-hole in my house just for this.

by xyos 4y ago

I installed pi-hole in my house just for this.

dmix 4y ago

How much time did it take to research + install a Pi-hole?

briffle 4y ago
I used a pi-hole, but wanted it to work outside my home as well. NextDNS uses many of the same blocklists, and I happily pay $20/year for it. Also has apps for devices that roam from the house. https://nextdns.io/pricing https://nextdns.io/pricing
amag 4y ago
They try to make it super easy: https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ and I have no recollection of encountering any issues. OTOH I am a software engineer working with Linux and network related stuff. The issues comes later when some pages may break. When that happens you need to stop bashing your computer and add some URLs to the Pi-hole whitelist (or skip those parts of the web...). In my experience there has been few issues. Some enterprisey stuff my wife needed for work depended on some oracle tracking URLs that were blocked if I remember correctly.
- wil421 4y ago
  Can you write exceptions for IPs within your network? I’d like to exclude our work laptops from filtering. Both laptops have static IPs on my network. Reading more I could just change my devices dns settings to use what I want. A little more cumbersome and requires local admin on windows.
  - happyopossum 4y ago
    You can create IP based exceptions, or you can point those machines at another dns resolver. Either works.

DrBoring 4y ago

I configured my kid's tablet to use AdGuard's public DNS https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html No more in-app ads. Strange thing, I tried it on my FireTV to block youtube ads, but it didn't work. I wouldn't be surprised if the FireTV monkies around with user settings. The other explanation could be that youtube uses the same hostname for videos and ads, so the DNS blocking can't distinguish. I ended up side-loading a 3rd party YT client that doesn't play ads. https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/ https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/