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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by huhtenberg on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:15AM (#22718333)
Just for the sake of argument - to block trackers that are built into other software, eg. chat clients and some such.
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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by lonelappde on Sunday March 29, 2020 @11:38AM (#22719835)
Pi-hole already does that. You can run pi-hole on your local OS with Docker. It's 5 minutes to install.
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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by brigandish on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:43AM (#22725768)
Aside from competition being a good thing, Docker itself introduces attack vectors.
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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by swinglock on Thursday April 02, 2020 @05:00AM (#22757296)
Surely not more so than curling scripts from the web and executing them as root, which is the exact install procedure described for this program.
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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by mega_tux on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:31PM (#22763366)
IMHO, it's way easier to check the script content before sudoing and validate its security than validate the Docker ecosystem.
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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by op00to on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:47AM (#22718544)
I mean, ok. But you're allowing a chat client to run code on your PC... in the case I saw it was sudo. You can do a shitload more with sudo than you can with a browser extension.

I still don't get it.

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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by ignoramous on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:50AM (#22718980)
> I still don't get it.

Think of it like a DNS-layer firewall. Plenty ways to get circumvent it, but works wonderfully, nonetheless.

> in the case I saw it was sudo

This isn't an all-in-one security product. Just one way to firewall trackers, ads, and whatever else one wants.

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