I generally will go in and whitelist things if a site breaks due to a DNS block, but of course putting your partner on the same VLAN can be problematic. I "got around" that by having a button in Home Assistant that will completely turn off Pi-hole (and now AdGuard). So my partner will go in and toggle that if there's a problem.
AdGuard Home does also have the ability to completely disable blocking for specific clients.
I also realize that you shouldn't expect most people to do that, let alone know how to.
I am someone who is very aggressively anti-ad.
One potential workaround, if your hardware supports it, is to broadcast two separate SSIDs for general users: one with a blocklist, and one without as a fallback. Users just need to know when to use each.
Not really. You can pull your phone out and do it in less than a minute
> it isn't always obvious which weirdly-spelled domain is causing the issue
It typically /is/ pretty obvious. You can drill down to the device making the request, and it becomes obvious once you see the blocked query
To each their own though. I personally don't want to pay a company to do something for me that I can do myself.
I also had my banking app stop working one day. Never could get it working. Eventually I just got fed up with having to switch vlans or to mobile data to check my bank and got rid of the pi-hole.
The blocker on PFsense eventually had the same issue.
Realistically, I was probably running too many overly restricting blocklists for my actual needs.
But, I also don't want to fiddle with messing with the out of the block blocklists that also caused me issues.