Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker

Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by Sol- on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:36AM (#17704512)

I would have the same concern, I imagine the Pi-Hole is best for households only inhabited by tech-affine people. I installed the uBlock Origin addon for some family members and even there they can be easily confused when a website breaks due to it (occurs rarely, but it happens). At least there I can easily tell them to temporarily disable ad-blocking by pressing that big uBlock button.

I don't think it would be feasible for me to explain to them how to temporarily whitelist things on the Pi-Hole.

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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by zaarn on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:19AM (#17704687)

I don't think that's a problem at all.

I did give the family members the password to unlock the block temporarily but after a while they simply stopped using those sites altogether.

It's also a big plus for devices that can't adblock themselves (phones, embedded devices, etc.)

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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by starquake on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:42AM (#17704538)

You can add a button to your Raspberry Pi to temporarily disable all the blocking. Not the best solution but still useful to know I think.

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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by nmca on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @05:25AM (#17704962)

I really like this idea. Make it big and red. Easily done it seems:

https://www.hackster.io/marko8904/web-connected-aws-iot-big-...

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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by arnjerobben on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:59AM (#17704613)

Do you have a link to a tutorial?

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Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker by spacedgrey on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:44AM (#17705569)

For the non-tech-savvy members of the household you can provide a link to the disable API.

e.g. Temporarily disable blocking for 60 seconds,

http://pihole.lan/admin/api.php?disable=60&auth= .

You can also infuriate the teenagers in the household by blocking and unblocking domains at certain times via crontab. e.g.

0 08 * * * /usr/local/bin/pihole -wild --delmode instagram.com youtube.com

0 22 * * * /usr/local/bin/pihole -wild instagram.com youtube.com

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