Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

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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