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Re:November Workshop: Running the Pi-hole Network-wide Ad-bl... by arkadiyt on Thursday November 02, 2017 @02:54AM (#15608361)
It works at the DNS level, i.e. DNS requests to ad network domains are blocked. It is not able to block first party tracking requests like ad blocking browser extensions can.
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Re:November Workshop: Running the Pi-hole Network-wide Ad-bl... by majewsky on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:07AM (#15609598)
As a general rule of thumb, I consider DNS-level blocking like pi-hole a defense-in-depth strategy only. It's great for situations where you cannot install a regular blocker plugin (e.g. IoT, or webpages inside applications instead of in a browser), but if you can, you absolutely want to use a dedicated tracking blocker in addition to pi-hole.
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