Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by ownagefool on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:48AM (#19261927)

It runs a local DNS server and a local http host.

You make a DNS query to badsite.com, your local DNS responds with your local http host and you load a pixel image instead of whatever it should have been.

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Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by vSanjo on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:05AM (#19262001)

So in that regard, what does a page look like with Pi-Hole running? As 'aesthetic' as uBlock? Or does it still show the ad's dimensions - just not the ad?

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Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by dwater on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @08:57AM (#19263210)

In my experience I don't notice things being different when I'm using the Pi-Hole. It just seems like regular functional internet. When I'm not connected is when I'm surprised by how many ads there are and where and when they appear.

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Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by ownagefool on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:31AM (#19262087)

Probably depends on the underlying CSS, but obviously CSS that comes with the and won't be downloaded, and I generally don't notice massive empty spaces.

I actually use pfblockerng, it does the same thing without the pretty UI.

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Re:Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by runeb on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @10:10AM (#19263670)

I set this up on an RPi last weekend and this is not how it works for me. Trying to resolve blacklisted domains from any network device resolves to 0.0.0.0

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