Mmm, Pi-hole - Hackdot

Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by mikestew on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:10PM (#18078057)

My Pi-hole with updated block lists (blocking trackers as well as ads) sits at around 87.7% requests blocked

Where in THE hell are you going on the Internet? Wait, don't answer that. I only wonder because we sit at around 20-30% at our house (which is still ridiculous). But approaching 90%? Maybe I need to crank the blocklists up a notch, but I can't imagine even surfing porn sites all day that I could get anywhere near that percentage of blocked requests. But, man, I enjoy a challenge...

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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by freehunter on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:54PM (#18080194)

Ever visited Forbes or Business Insider? Easily 90% of those sites are third-party scripts served from other domains.

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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by JadoJodo on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:06PM (#18081877)

This is why Forbes is in my blacklist.

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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by JadoJodo on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:36PM (#18078336)

I've hit 75% before. My Roku desperately wants to phone home (25k requests/day).

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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by mikestew on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:18PM (#18078752)

Yeah, upvote for reminding me about chatty IoT crap. I've got a Nest right now that was phoning home every four seconds. Why, I have no idea, so now it doesn't phone home at all. And a Foscam camera that isn't as persistent, but still tries a few times a day. We're still at < 35% blocked, though.

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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by sandoz9 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:01PM (#18079184)

My Samsung TV wants to send home info about everything I watch.

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Re:Mmm, Pi-hole by zmw on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:15PM (#18078725)

I’m only at 7.5%, probably because I use uMatrix in the first place, and have gone out of my way to kill a few applications that phone home like crazy.

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