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PiHole is interesting in the amount of ads it blocks, but also the ads it doesn't. Made most of the banners go away for the silly coloring applications my kid
by darrylb42 4y ago
PiHole is interesting in the amount of ads it blocks, but also the ads it doesn't. Made most of the banners go away for the silly coloring applications my kids use, but the full screen video ads don't go away. The video ads really need to be blocked as there are a lot that are not appropriate for the age of my kids.
Some applications also refuse to start without tracking active. Took a while to figure out that "Envoy" the desk booking system wouldn't start while getting DNS from pihole.
- hk1337 4y agoYeah, the biggest thing I noticed that showed me how well it works is viewing news article posts where everyone in the comments complains about how unreadable it is and the page loads fine for me with tons of whitespace. The video ads on YouTube infuriate me though because a lot of times the first one isn't skippable anymore and you have to wade through 2-3 to get to the video. EDIT: Also, I have a Sudoku game that's just about unplayable away from PiHole because it has an ad at the bottom and interrupts gameplay periodically with video ads.
- androidu 4y agowhy don’t you just watch youtube through Invidious ( https://invidious.io/ https://invidious.io/ ) there are so many instances available, and you can even watch them in HD by appending ‘ &quality=dash’ to the url. For Twitter you can use Nitter etc… there are alternatives, wrote a nice blog post about what I was able to collect https://dminca.codeberg.page/posts/improving-your-web-experience/ https://dminca.codeberg.page/posts/improving-your-web-experi...
- satyrnein 4y agoI pay for YouTube premium just so my young kids don't see ads when they watch it on our TV.