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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by flukus on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:42PM (#16633882)
This will only protect you while your on your own network. A lot of the juciest data is about your public location, for that you need something device/browser specific.
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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by efreak on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:36PM (#16634855)
There's nothing (except possibly your ISP) stoping you from opening your firewall and using it remotely. I personally run dnsmasq (manually configured, but otherwise similar to pihole) on a VPS.
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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by flukus on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:33AM (#16635485)
> There's nothing (except possibly your ISP) stopping you from opening your firewall and using it remotely.

My ISP won't but there are ways around that. The biggest problem I've faced is on the modem side of things, finding something I'd trust to be open to the internet, ideally something I can install openWRT or similar on and something I know will work in my market. It's an options minefield.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by MertsA on Thursday March 22, 2018 @02:16PM (#16651125)
Just run a local caching resolver, on Linux that is super easy and uses little resources.
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