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Is that your experience? Honest question, because only yesterday, after several years with PiHole and uBlock Origin, I found that a Shopify shop wasn't working

Is that your experience? Honest question, because only yesterday, after several years with PiHole and uBlock Origin, I found that a Shopify shop wasn't working for me. But that's probably the only issue I encountered after all those years...

Dalewyn 3y ago
I've come across a few borking issues, including online banking because card rewards are counted as advertising in the list(s) I use. Such problems are few and far between, though, and it wasn't that hard to figure out what to whitelist (granted I'm a computer nerd, not everyone is).
jokethrowaway 3y ago
Not parent but yes, that's exactly why I stopped using PiHole
davitocan 3y ago
Home Depot search breaks for me when using Blocky, and is the only consistent issue I observe.
- Marsymars 3y ago
  Home Depot is the most fragile website I'm forced to deal with. It regularly breaks in novel ways for me when it can't load some random dependency that it doesn't actually need the functionality from.
  - radicality 3y ago
    And it doesn’t load at all from outside the US! I once wanted to purchase before coming back, to learn I need to vpn back in to the US to order something. Crazy.
    - userbinator 3y ago
      Thank the GDPR for that, probably.
dorianh 3y ago
Unfortunately yes, there are features on big websites which just don't work. Now every time, I have an issue with any website, my first instinct is to turn off pi-hole. Most of the time, pi-hole is not the even the issue, but sometimes it is. It's annoying to browse the internet while constantly thinking "Maybe there is an issue on my side".
- dspillett 3y ago
  > Unfortunately yes, there are features on big websites which just don't work. It is very rare that I find something stalker-blocking (pihole on my local network & VPN) causes to break that I care enough to turn blocking off for. It might have happened as little as twice, one of those occurrences predating PiHole. Information is usually in many other places or I really don't care that much, and shopping sites that break are waving a red flag by being broken so I'll go look elsewhere. I do have a bookmarklet on my devices to turn it off for a few minutes, but that was used more when testing it then it has been since. I mostly live alone so don't have the problem of other users, such as a spouse or kids, having trouble. Guests always have the option of using their normal mobile access instead of the local wireless if they experience insurmountable problems.
  - dorianh 3y ago
    That's good to hear. I'm going to try oisd, hoping for fewer false positive :).

Dalewyn 3y ago

I've come across a few borking issues, including online banking because card rewards are counted as advertising in the list(s) I use. Such problems are few and far between, though, and it wasn't that hard to figure out what to whitelist (granted I'm a computer nerd, not everyone is).

jokethrowaway 3y ago

Not parent but yes, that's exactly why I stopped using PiHole

davitocan 3y ago

Home Depot search breaks for me when using Blocky, and is the only consistent issue I observe.

Marsymars 3y ago
Home Depot is the most fragile website I'm forced to deal with. It regularly breaks in novel ways for me when it can't load some random dependency that it doesn't actually need the functionality from.
- radicality 3y ago
  And it doesn’t load at all from outside the US! I once wanted to purchase before coming back, to learn I need to vpn back in to the US to order something. Crazy.
  - userbinator 3y ago
    Thank the GDPR for that, probably.

dorianh 3y ago

Unfortunately yes, there are features on big websites which just don't work. Now every time, I have an issue with any website, my first instinct is to turn off pi-hole. Most of the time, pi-hole is not the even the issue, but sometimes it is. It's annoying to browse the internet while constantly thinking "Maybe there is an issue on my side".

dspillett 3y ago
> Unfortunately yes, there are features on big websites which just don't work. It is very rare that I find something stalker-blocking (pihole on my local network & VPN) causes to break that I care enough to turn blocking off for. It might have happened as little as twice, one of those occurrences predating PiHole. Information is usually in many other places or I really don't care that much, and shopping sites that break are waving a red flag by being broken so I'll go look elsewhere. I do have a bookmarklet on my devices to turn it off for a few minutes, but that was used more when testing it then it has been since. I mostly live alone so don't have the problem of other users, such as a spouse or kids, having trouble. Guests always have the option of using their normal mobile access instead of the local wireless if they experience insurmountable problems.
- dorianh 3y ago
  That's good to hear. I'm going to try oisd, hoping for fewer false positive :).