PiHole - A black hole for ads

dazfuller,
@dazfuller@mstdn.social avatar

My crashed yesterday. First time in 3 years it’s put a foot wrong! And it’s just made me even more impressed with it, this tiny little Pi Zero W handling all the houses traffic. Especially when I’ve got things like MS Teams that needs killing and reopening several times a day

jamescooke,
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@dazfuller They’re so amazing. I’ve been running our house one on a Pi 1B for more than five years. It’s running off the router’s power via USB, which I love… just like a little symbiote attached to its host 🥰

I’ve got a feeling when it fails it’s going to fail hard though. Have got a Pi Zero doing nothing, so maybe I should prepare that as the backup? 🤔

ai6yr,

Put the entire household on the pihole, hope I don't get too many complaints, LOL (maybe overkill for the entire household, but... worth the experiment)

Greg,
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@ai6yr I had to undo that :( It was blocking the stupid ads that the stupid free "games" that my youngest was playing on his tablet. I hate those games. But that's a parenting difference here. So I had to disable router-wide pihole use. :(

smatheson,
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@ai6yr This is the way. Everything on the network is blocked by default. My stuff is grouped to also block all Meta stuff, another group allows ads for a few devices that need them. Also get a nice app (iOS here, but others or web app I’m sure) to easily poke the api to temporarily disable blocking for troubleshooting- mine offers 1min and 5min.

Papeleo, German
@Papeleo@mastodon.social avatar

Ich muss mal wieder Werbung für machen. 🖖

In den letzten 24 h haben die Geräte bei uns zuhause > 60000 Verbindungen ins Internet gesucht, davon wurden > 21000 (35 %) geblockt, ohne dass wir Einschränkungen hatten. Die waren also völlig nutzlos für uns, aber offenbar sehr interessant für andere da draußen.

ist wichtig!

Solches Wissen wünsche ich mir auch in den Schulen, liebes 🙂

mars1024,
@mars1024@techhub.social avatar

The ad-spam-situation on the web is terrible! 🤢

My -level filter went offline for a while, and a bunch of ads and in-page popups jump-scared me! 🤕

Also: I would like to thank services like , , & for the great work that they do -- by blocking ads+trackers -- to keep us SANE and SAFE! 😇😇😇

ainmosni,
@ainmosni@berlin.social avatar

Every time I browse the web outside of the comfort of my local #PiHole protected network, I'm amazed with how obnoxious ads are these days.

ainmosni,
@ainmosni@berlin.social avatar

Sure, take up 25% of my screen real estate with one ad, while making me scroll two screenfuls worth of another one. Totally normal and sane.

pax0707,
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joel,
@joel@piou.foolbazar.eu avatar

Playing with #Docker and #pihole a bit and... it seems you can't DNS-over-TLS #DOT with it. Whether it is on the forwarders side or the pihole server side. Sounds strange to me and not that far from a NoGo. #DNS experts have an opinion on this (doT) ?

marcus,
@marcus@bearologics.social avatar

And this, my precious bubble, is why I'm running a . (I'm a paying customer with a subscription btw, not trying to dodge away and read for free at all cost.)

Zeit.de website without ads

Aegewsh, Polish
@Aegewsh@101010.pl avatar

#pihole działa od kilku dni :)
Jak do tej pory musiałem tylko jedną domenę dodać do whitelist, bo się młoda do konta na xboxie zalogować nie mogła, a pozostałe, które mi się nie otwierają, zwyczajnie zlałem :)
Już ponad 40% zapytań zablokowano :)

pecet,
@pecet@pol.social avatar

@Aegewsh AdGuard home lepszy imho

milosz,
@milosz@adventurousbeastie.eu avatar

@pecet @Aegewsh Wróciłem z adguard do pihole. Adguard słabo ogarniał wewnętrzne domeny na wykresach. Pihole jest pod tym względem lepsze, wszystko jest czytelne.

joergi,
@joergi@chaos.social avatar

To the people who run a PiHole in their home network:

Any bad effects on some websites? Any apps on your Android / iOS devices not working?
Anyone got rid with Amazon prime in movie ads with it?

I'm so annoyed of paying for Amazon prime and been forced to watch stupid constantly repeating advertisements. Next step canceling this shit

For those who don't know it:
https://pi-hole.net/

@Raspberry_Pi

retiolus, Catalan
@retiolus@mamot.fr avatar

Aquest és el nou servidor on està kfem.cat, el tinc a casa, de moment a la meva habitació.

  • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
  • 32GB DDR3
  • 2TB SSD

Fa molt de soroll.

Com que tinc instal·lat a casa i de moment el servidor l'utilitza com a DNS, podem veure la quantitat de sol·licituds que fa en comparació als altres aparells.

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ilyess,
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@retiolus That’s a lot of requests in one day!

retiolus,
@retiolus@mamot.fr avatar

He fet passar un cable per tot el pis, 30 m! Ja ho tinc tot concentrat, fora de la meva habitació, en el lloc més fresquet del pis 😊

Ara falta fer cables a mida per organitzar tot això una mica millor.

amadeus,
@amadeus@mstdn.social avatar

The last few days, after almost 3 years, I finally got over myself to re-install our , and and reworked the strategy as well ( and stuff). I am glad that this is finally done. 🫣

schenklklopfer, German
@schenklklopfer@chaos.social avatar

Seit mein #PiHole korrekt mit #IPv6 arbeitet ist die Blockrate von ~25% auf über 30% gestiegen!

IPv6 ist und bleibt zwar ein Dreck, aber man kommt ja nimmer ohne aus -.-

teamtuck,

Trying to create custom reports via but for some reason, PiHole DB doesn't have hostnames, it has IP addresses, which is not helpful for what I'm looking for.

Setting up a temp VM so I can install Technitium and see what it's capable of.

I just want to be able to get a daily report of specific devices on my network and see what they are doing; I want to manipulate the view of the data and bend it to my will lol.

lordvalor, Spanish
@lordvalor@mastodon.social avatar

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