Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
by close04 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @05:22AM
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I think he's describing a local network ad-blocker that you can control and configure from any browser with a simple extension. This means that you can update rules from any device in your home/office and it would still apply for all devices in your network.
Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
by Jaruzel on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @05:54AM
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exactly! You wouldn't even need an extension.
Just tell your users, if a site isn't loading properly, to go to http://my-pi-hole.local.lan/whitelist and unblock it.
Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:12PM
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It would be ideal if the workflow could be something more like "click this link" (and pi-hole's GUI would then give you a prominent button to redirect you to an unfiltered version of the last request from your device (or maybe a list, since who knows how many background ones are being silently killed), which would be whitelisted for an hour.
Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
by fcarraldo on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @09:31AM
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You can do this already. The URL is http://pi.hole
Whether you want them to have access depends on your “users”.
Re:Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
by close04 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @10:52AM
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A 1-click option (or maybe 2) is a much better solution for tech-averse users :). And extensions already exist to enable/disable Pi-Hole, the functionality could be expanded to include quick whitelisting.
>If Pi-Hole had a webpage where you could put in a domain, i.e. cnbc.com, and it went off and loaded the html of that page, worked out all the other domains that html connects to, and then gives you a 'unblock' button to click, that would improve usability significantly, as even a non-techie user could use it.
Aren't you just describing uMatrix?