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Not a great headline, the article focus is on recent version improvements and entire local network "front of house" protection for all devices, all browsers, ta
by defrost 2y ago
Not a great headline, the article focus is on recent version improvements and entire local network "front of house" protection for all devices, all browsers, tablets, TVs, local data phones, etc:
Pi-Hole 6 appeared a few weeks ago. Since then, there have been a few small bug fixes and it's now up to version 6.0.5.
The new release is lighter weight and has fewer external dependencies: it no longer needs PHP or an external web server. If you run the Docker container version on top of another Linux OS, it's lighter still, as the container is now based on Alpine Linux instead of Debian.
Is it really worth setting up a dedicated ad-blocker on your own network? We decided it was high time to try.
For those that want to it's an easy setup on a NAS box and gives a central dashboard for whitelisting, blacklisting, toggling ad filters, logs, etc.
- stavros 2y agoGranted, Pi hole is a great project, and this new version does seem like a big improvement. It just irks me how people will stay with a hostile browser instead of spending the literal five minutes it takes to switch to another one.
- anonymousiam 2y agoI nearly submitted this story myself, so I'm glad somebody did. I've been running pihole at two locations for many years. It does a great job of blocking ads and scripts on all devices. I customized one of my two locations and it stopped service DHCP on one of the two subnets after the update a few weeks ago. I reverted the update and it's been fine. (I keep good backups.) A friend who also runs it had the same problem and he provided me with his solution before I had a chance to look at it myself: listeningMode = "ALL" ### CHANGED, default = "LOCAL"