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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Got a pi hole, what are ads in general?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know that I'm at fault here for using such services, but Pihole can't block the ads that are hosted on the same server as the service, eg. Half the ads on Youtube.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's still really good for privacy though, blocking mIcRoSoFt spyware and all kinds of other stuft. And you can create your own blocklists.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just got a pihole setup and im curious how youd block Microsoft stuff using it. Is it part of a blocklist or is it something you manually filtered?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

one of Dan's list blocks a bunch of them, has something like 500k item on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gotcha, thanks for sharing :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just know that DoH is probably going to ruin the fun for you. Unless your blocking all DoH hosts.

In my Opnsense setup I have some lists added to block all traffic to known DoH servers...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, definitely!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I use, made it hard for me to move to Firefox because I already don't get ads in chrome and it is better supported, which is honestly a personal failing on my end

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

dns blockers are not a suitable replacement for Dom/css based blockers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair, but it's good enough