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I've been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I'm looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will also cover the apps on my smart TV.

I run most of my self hosted services on a proxmox server, so I'd like something that'll run as an LXC container or a VM. I'm also vaguely aware that various competing applications have come out since pi-hole first gained popularity. Is pi-hole still the best thing going, or are there better options?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pi-hole is great, but unfortunately ads in YouTube or other streaming services is not one of the things it blocks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wonder why we don't have AI browser extensions that can recognise and obscure possible ads / unwanted content yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Simple: That would be the opposite of making money for companies

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

Adguard-home is way better than pi-hole imo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pihole user for more than 5 years,.can confirm that it is indeed better, made the switch few months ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

What makes it better other than the UI? I'm weary of using it because it is developed by Russian developers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Pi-Hole’s great. Got my primary instance on a Pi 4 and three secondaries (one per vlan) on LXCs. Works so well it feels weird seeing ads when I’m not at home, I’m actually considering using Tailscale to route all my queries through my home connection.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I run pihole on proxomox, and also opnsense in the same box. Then you can forward all port 53 traffic to your pihole. Some devices have hard-coded DNS that will bypass the DHCP DNS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some chromecasts stop working when you do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Chuck 'em in the garbage and get something that doesn't break when you insist on privacy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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DNS Domain Name Service/System
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS HTTP over SSL
IP Internet Protocol
IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
LXC Linux Containers
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPN Virtual Private Network

7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

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