News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tailscale raises $100M. Parent comment

Re:Tailscale raises $100M by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @05:47PM (#31266277)
I have the PiHole VPN configured so that only DNS lookups go through it. All other traffic is not tunneled. It means I don't get billed for several gigabytes of traffic from AWS and my traffic doesn't come from an AWS IP, but I still get all the ad-blocking benefits of a PiHole.

At home on my desktop, I just use uBlock Origin in my browser.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tailscale raises $100M by O_H_E on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @11:20PM (#31269013)
oh wow that is cool. I have never heard or thought about putting a pi-hole in the cloud.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tailscale raises $100M by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday May 05, 2022 @02:54PM (#31277143)
It made more sense to me for using a PiHole on my phone. I didn't want to expose a VPN port on my home network, and didn't want to deal with trying to tunnel VPN through SSH.

And the EC2 instance I installed it on was already being used for other toy projects, so it's not like it cost me anything. The additional egress bandwidth is likely fractions of a penny.

[ Parent | on HN ]