Pi-Hole 4.3.2 - Hackdot

Re:Pi-Hole 4.3.2 by hendersoon on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @01:25PM (#21062507)

Not for your browsers, no. UBlock Origin is far better than any host-based adblocker.

I use pihole to block ads inside apps, it's unmatched for that.

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Re:Pi-Hole 4.3.2 by distances on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:35PM (#21063735)

That would be a suitable use case, but I don't think I use any apps that contain ads.

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Re:Pi-Hole 4.3.2 by jddj on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @04:24PM (#21064238)

It's not just ads in apps, it blocks tracking beacons too. If I connect my (big Chinese manufacturer's) android device to my vps which has the pihole running I can watch as one or two requests per second are blocked with no browser open.

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Re:Pi-Hole 4.3.2 by bravoetch on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:16AM (#21067831)

Things like sonos devices make constant requests to metrics servers. Pi-hole drops that shit in a bottomless pit.

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