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The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky (den.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That was a great read. Really enjoyed that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The beauty is that you can shove Pi in it of course.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nothing in this article describes it solving any problem that isn't better solved by an ad blocker. In fact they even admit that you still need an ad blocker anyway. So why bother with the pi hole?

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

That means you can play free games on your phone and have no pop up ads.

You can use Netflix ads tier and crave ads tier and the pi hole blocks them It's amazing!!

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

Does that also work with a VPN?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Excellent question. You can set the Pi-hole as a default DNS provider on your router which will the set it as a DNS provider for any device connected via DHCP (which in a home network should be basically everything). This means ads will be blocked across all devices and apps instead of just your browser where you installed adblock.

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

Thanks for clarifying. In my case that's basically zero gain then cos all my devices have ad block in their browsers and I generally either use apps that have no ads or use revanced to remove them

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

Any reason to use this instead of a free NextDNS?

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

Local hosting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Additionally you have control over it. Sure, you don't need local since you're using it in conjunction with the internet. You control it though. You decide entirely what you want to trust and don't have to delegate that trust as much.

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