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Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by tjpnz on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @10:52PM (#19260715)
I tried this out over a weekend but decided to abandon it due to some of the sites I frequent being blocked. Whitelisting isn't a viable solution here as I would then need to teach my girlfriend how to do it and any family members who decide to visit.
Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by KeepFlying on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:19PM (#19260837)
PiHole has the option to have blackholed domains show a "This was blocked by PiHole, click here to whitelist this domain". It doesnt work perfectly (ex. Hulu just craps out for me with PiHole because of some domain under the hood being blocked), but it is something.

And for guests you can disable PiHole for any time period with a click of the button on its web page.

Or kick your guests/roomates/gf onto a different subnet.

That said though, it is clearly not perfect and could use some work and TLC to take care of. But in case you (or the nest person reading this) wanted some ideas, I thought I'd offer.

Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by cweiss on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:28PM (#19267119)
There are other blocklists you can use besides the default. Some quick googling turned up half a dozen that folks like. Some more restrictive, some less.
Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by tehlike on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @10:54PM (#19260725)
keeping your own devices on pi-hole and using google dns by default could work.
Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by bdorn on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:13PM (#19260813)
this. it's a cool concept, but not good for roommates.