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Re:Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker... by t0astbread on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:02PM (#20784427)
Not at all.

I also just checked via dig if there is any slowdown and dig didn't report any. (I first queried google.com with the large hosts file, then replaced the hosts file with a default one, cleaned my DNS caches and requeried and it didn't show any speedup.)

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best setup for ad blocking and tracker... by t0astbread on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:05PM (#20784447)
Furthermore, I don't know how Pi-Hole works internally so I don't know if it's somehow specially optimized compared to /etc/hosts or implements any caching strategies but wouldn't introducing another server in your DNS chain slow things down more than /etc/hosts which is always present anyways?
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