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A comment on Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements.

Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by geuis on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:23PM (#13859214)
I haven't had time to look at the code yet. I have some questions though.

As an experiment a while back I wrote a simple dns server that blocked ad-related domains. https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns. While it technically worked, it made using the web almost non functional. Nearly every site was broken in some way. So blocking purely by domain isn't going to work. I wonder how pi-hole is dealing with it.

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by promofaux on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:26PM (#13859249)
We have a web interface with a whole host of tools to easily identify and whitelist the domains that may or may not be causing issues with sites you browse.

Everyone's mileage varies, but I have only had to whitelist 5 or 6 sites using the default blocklists.

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