urgh. BleepingComputer is telling me I'm blocking ads when I'm visiting the site with plain old Firefox, no blockers or anything. It let me read the site after I found the link that said no I don't want to support the site. But I do and I'm not blocking ads. How annoying.
Re: .zip domain names spreading malware. I added a regex
.zip$
to my pi-hole to block this domain. In admin page, click Domains on left sidebar, click RegEx filter tab, add to Regular Expression box, click Add to Blacklist.
I'm running #pihole in recursive #DNS mode and having everything in my home and my public /29 use it as the main DNS server.
The good things? Ad/tracker blocking on things that don't have built in ad/tracker blocking like certain phone apps, less spam (I host my main mail server locally), reduced monitoring from my Internet provider.
The bad things? Single point of failure. If pihole is down, everything else is as well.
I think for my sanity I'll just block the whole damn pointless and stupid domain in #PiHole directly so I don't have to even think about it. the dot zip domain is literally one of the most incompetent tld's I have ever heard about and it only gets worse. https://youtu.be/V82lHNsSPww
#pihole was blocking dns lookups to my #MQTT server with a "Blocked database busy" issue that was solved through the "Update gravity" action in the pihole web UI ...
My little computer board that I am hoping to make a Pi-Hole out of will arrive today. So that's this evening's tinkering sorted. Always best to do those kind of things when she's away anyway. https://pi-hole.net/ #PiHole#Tinker
After discovering that the default launcher on my #Google Pixel 4a does not let me change the search engine to anything else than Google, I tried the #Microsoft launcher. Which isn't bad at all I have to say, until I saw my #PiHole logs. Holy moly, it attempts to contact Microsoft almost every minute!
Thinking that this can't be good for battery life, I searched @fdroidorg for an alternative and settled at #Lawnchair (https://lawnchair.app) I'm very happy with this one. Thank you for reading.
Quad9 does deserve our support.
But even better in terms of freedom is running your own local recursive resolver (e.g. #Unbound, possibly combined with #PiHole), which also allows you to do DNSSEC validation on/near the endpoint.
As a content creator, I’m all for getting more money, but forcing users to watch ads isn’t the way to do it… I think YouTube would lose a lot of viewers if they enforced this on everyone, and creators would suffer as a result.
@thelinuxEXP@pocketlint As I understand it though, #PiHole isn’t perfect and struggles to block #advertisements 100% of the time… I looked into it a while back, and that was the most common complaint everyone was making, particularly with regards to #YouTube …
O Clever People of the Mastodons! Does anyone know if its possible with a .mobileconfig to do the equivalent of setting a hostname to 0.0.0.0 in /etc/hosts ? I'm thinking that it would be a lightweight way to block most ads on #iOS by setting the Google Ads and connect.facebook.com hosts to blackhole. I'm having lots of fun with #PiHole at home, but want some protection out and about
@softinio I don’t get into the weeds with my network traffic, so I have been pretty content with #PiHole blocking telemetry along with ads. Although it’s not in the same league as an actual firewall, my Top Blocked domains are all telemetry.
Hello, I've been looking to follow some tutorials to get better with my #raspberrypi. Anyone found some really nice books / blogs / websites? I would like it to be sustainable, i.e., not requiring to constantly buy new components / dozen of PIs or similar.
@brainofdane@passthejoe Indeed. I have 6 Macs in my house, and 3 of them run #Linux. I really only keep #macOS on my iMac because of the outstanding #Affinity apps, on my wife’s #MacBook for the Silhouette software, and my mother’s Mac mini because she’s 82.
Everyone remind me that tonight I have to swap SD cards in my #Odroid C2 based #PiHole#NAS#Printserver#Seedbox thing. It's dying and I'll lose everything if I don't do it. Which would mean no printing, no media, no DNS... no nothing. My life depends on the survival of a tiny 128GB #toshiba#microSD card.
In 1998, two Stanford kids published a paper in Computer Networks: "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," in which they wrote, "Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers."
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Now, I also have a #PiHole on my home LAN, which blocks most ads even in a default browser - but earlier this day, I'd been on a public wifi network that was erroneously blocking a website (the always excellent superpunch.net) so I'd turned my wifi off, which meant the connection came over my phone's 5G connection, bypassing the PiHole:
Changed my #pihole lighttpd with nginx. Wondering why use lighttpd instead of nginx by default by official release. Why i changed it? Coz i want to use same server for my others usage.