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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by aembleton on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:37AM (#14911388)
This is PiHole[1] as a service without any mention about pricing. You can buy a Pi for ~£10 (one off price) and install this for your own network in a few minutes.

1. https://pi-hole.net/

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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by adfreelife on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:54AM (#14911548)
I tried to be transparent about pricing, and the free trial lasts an entire day before resetting to make sure you are comfortable setting it up before purchasing. You are getting a dedicated VPS with every plan, no sharing. So the price includes the overhead there.
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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by BillinghamJ on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:57AM (#14911586)
Seems a little weird and highly inefficient to separate them like that, especially use of IPs etc.

Why not just have one large instance?

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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by diffset on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:45PM (#14912171)
Wouldn't different people want different things on their whitelist/blacklist? AFAIK Pi-hole doesn't offer a way to do that.
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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by adfreelife on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:47PM (#14915380)
That's exactly right. Everyone gets their own white/blacklist, control over logging, etc. And how would you end a subscription if the IP still existed with the software?
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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by GordonS on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:46PM (#14912176)
That seems like an incredibly inefficient and wasteful way to do it. Am I missing some justification for this?
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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by swsieber on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:50AM (#14911488)
No, it lists the price at the bottom as $9/month.
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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by 0xffff2 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:28PM (#14912687)
That's hilariously expensive... Never mind Pi-Hole on an actual RPi, I can set up my own VPS running Pi-Hole for half that. Is the effort of setting up Pi-Hole on my own really worth a premium of $4/month?
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