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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by snazz on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:08PM (#19656054)
The default ones feel that way to me. I use a Pi-hole equivalent plus a client side adblocker (uBlock Origin), request/domain blacklist manager (uMatrix), and JavaScript blocker (NoScript) on Firefox. The Pi-hole-like-thing needs to be disabled or something needs to be whitelisted at most once every couple months.

I have to enable JS or third-party content much more often than that, but the trade off to protect my privacy is worth it.

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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by jakear on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:12PM (#19656649)
Why do you use both NoScript and uMatrix? It was my understanding that uMatrix would block JS, but thinking about it now maybe it doesn’t block JS embedded in HTML? Is that the idea?
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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by gorhill on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:16PM (#19656668)
Both uBlock Origin and uMatrix are able to prevent execution of inline JavaScript.
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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by snazz on Saturday April 13, 2019 @08:26PM (#19656710)
I could probably consolidate, but I’ve grown accustomed to the defaults and interfaces in both and the combo works well enough as it is. There’s no better reason than simply my personal idiosyncrasies.
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