Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster
by packet_nerd on Saturday April 13, 2019 @09:51PM
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The Pi Hole is blocking at the DNS level, which comes with pros and cons compared to a browser based ad blocker. You should absolutely run both. The Pi Hole can catch ads in apps and other places your browser based ad blocker wouldn't, and the browser blocker will catch any ads that don't have their own DNS lookup. Also the Pi Hole acts as a local DNS cache, which will speed things up slightly in some cases.
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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster
by crispinb on Saturday April 13, 2019 @10:41PM
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I've long used Adguard rather than a browser-extension blocker. Android is a shitshow without some kind of system-wide ad/tracker blocking, which drew my attention to Adguard. I liked it so installed it everywhere.