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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by lkschubert8 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:12AM (#22126563)
It would work off of your network. If you are using their DNS it would work when you took your laptop to a coffee shop or when your phone switched to 4G/5G. That seems like a big benefit to me.
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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by ekianjo on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:03AM (#22126857)
If you have your DNS server its trivial to connect to it from anywhere you are.
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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by lkschubert8 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:58AM (#22127532)
Do most people expose their pi-hole to the internet? I didn't think that was a common thing to do.
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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by ekianjo on Saturday January 25, 2020 @06:46AM (#22145890)
No. VPN tunnel in between.
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