Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by vanekjar on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:57PM (#13859691)

Cool project! Great idea and nice UI. I have tried recently and it works fine with HTTP.

The problem is with ads served via HTTPS and since today most of the pages are using HTTPS protocol pi-hole is kinda useless.

For reference on this topic https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/websites-hanging-timing-out-...

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by wlll on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:10PM (#13859859)

DNS happens before HTTP and HTTPS. If you block at the DNS level it will work for both HTTP and HTTPS URLs.

That page you linked seems to confirm this, and that Pi-Hole works just fine blocking HTTPS.

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by vanekjar on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:16PM (#13861317)

That's true, but instead of empty ad being server (as in case HTTP), HTTPS request timeouts and increases loading time for many pages, because the page waits until all JS loads.

Another problem is that some browsers will retry failed request several times (Chromium) effectively prolonging the time before final error is confirmed.

More about HTTP retry can be found here https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-nottingham-httpbis-retry-00....

To sum it up. Using pi-hole had a negative impact on my browsing experience because HTTPS pages were more less buggy/slow.

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by detaro on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:49PM (#13863261)

HTTPS requests only timeout if your setup doesn't reject them (also described in your first link).

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by corford on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:34PM (#13864234)

True but only if the add is served off a different domain.

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