Re:Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole
by nominated1 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @03:55PM
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> A device in my house went nuts and decided it needed to ping an NTP server 1K a night. Not anymore.
Wait, Pi-hole was your solution here?
> In the end, I kind of get the impression you're spending more mental energy on arguments against, rather than ask yourself why someone might find it useful.
I’m asking because I believe there are better ways. I could be called out for baiting or pushing a “the only way to win is not to play” for IoT and creepy apps/services agenda. Yet, NYT, FB and many others can still be viewed and signed into with a mobile browser. The experience may not be as nice but it still works and sends the right message to these corps. When creepy app/device/service is the only option I recoil and reassess.
Besides, DNS blacklisting isn’t perfect and requires a fair amount of tweaking depending on how many thingies you’re using it with. Any compromise you make for one affects all others. I think we have the same goal of “having your cake and eating it too” just different methods. Either way, we’re both expending constant energy and compromising.
Wait, Pi-hole was your solution here?
> In the end, I kind of get the impression you're spending more mental energy on arguments against, rather than ask yourself why someone might find it useful.
I’m asking because I believe there are better ways. I could be called out for baiting or pushing a “the only way to win is not to play” for IoT and creepy apps/services agenda. Yet, NYT, FB and many others can still be viewed and signed into with a mobile browser. The experience may not be as nice but it still works and sends the right message to these corps. When creepy app/device/service is the only option I recoil and reassess.
Besides, DNS blacklisting isn’t perfect and requires a fair amount of tweaking depending on how many thingies you’re using it with. Any compromise you make for one affects all others. I think we have the same goal of “having your cake and eating it too” just different methods. Either way, we’re both expending constant energy and compromising.