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Disclaimer: The below is not a complaint about the pi-hole itself, but the ways in which companies integrate ads into their online presence. I've found my comp
by xracy 1y ago
Disclaimer: The below is not a complaint about the pi-hole itself, but the ways in which companies integrate ads into their online presence.
I've found my complaint about having a pi-hole is there are a number of services I use that expect/depend on ads existing in order to function. Things like, some shows on paramount+ (as an example) will fail to play (hang indefinitely) if an ad hasn't run before one of their shows, even though it theoretically shouldn't have ads?
Additionally, the other thing I run into, is that the first page of google is basically useless to me, even when the top result is an ad to the thing that I want, because when I click on the ad link, the pi-hole doesn't route me to the link I want. So I find I have to scroll down a half-page to get to the regular link I googled for.
If anyone has any workarounds for these issues, I've otherwise really enjoyed having a pi-hole. (Though my friends frequently tell me to stop talking about it, they'll say "shut your pi-hole", really weird).
Edit: Seems like they recommend tailoring the list of accepted domains for things in the article. (Will do this for paramount, I guess).
For Google, I separately stopped using an ad-blocker because it broke youtube when I did, even though I shouldn't get ads on youtube to begin with... God I hate the internet some days. But I imagine the easiest thing to do is to add that back so I can ignore those links.
- chihuahua 1y agoEdge browser + uBlock Origin, and YouTube works perfectly without ads.
- squigz 1y agoFirefox works well too. 10.2M blocked requests on my uBlock, and YouTube - and every other site - works perfectly fine.
- happyhacks 1y agoyoutube was likely broken because jnn-pa.googleapis.com was likely in one of the lists - add it to "Exact allow" list Similarly you can allow googleadservices.com but that is too much IMO - I just have a habit now to not click on such results.
- bluescrn 1y agoPlus staying logged out of YouTube, which seems to avoid their ad-blocker-blocking for now.
- NoPicklez 1y agoTo fix that you just need to look through the logs through the native pi-hole UI and whitelist those domains which cause friction with your browsing habits. The google sponsored search issue was one I also fixed quite quickly. As for the others those services depend on, again you just need to find them and whitelist them which isn't too tricky to do. Unfortunately pi-hole won't stop everything.
- foobahhhhh 1y agoOr don't use hostile services
- NoPicklez 1y agoThat is also an option yes, however it is challenging in todays world to find products that aren't hostile. Usually its a question of to which degree are they hostile and what can I live with or control.
- perdomon 1y agoFor the Google issue, I’ve been using Kagi as a search tool for the last 2 weeks and love it. No ads and great results that can be personalized. I’m on the free version but will likely start the subscription soon.