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A comment on Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers. Parent comment

Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by Night_Thastus on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:07PM (#22185209)
This is the purpose of something like PiHole.

While an ad-blocker will only work on devices that can install one, a PiHole will drop traffic you don't want regardless of the device requesting it.

Very useful, and no subscription needed.

Is that not sufficient for what you need?

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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by digitalsushi on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:46PM (#22186814)
Forgive me, I'm not familiar with pihole's feature set; would this protect from connections not relying on the DNS at all? There is no requirement to use DNS to phone home, and it is protection from that I am interested in - at the packet forwarding level.
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