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0 pointsmirkules10y ago0 comments

Funny, I just bought my first RPi in order to run Pi-Hole. It works decently from my daughter's tablet. I enabled it on the router so the whole house is covered, but due to uBlock I hardly ever see ads on computers. The nice thing is having "boring text" instead of colorful ads on tablets makes them a much smaller target for kids to tap on.

I will say that the installation process can be somewhat painful if you deviate from the norm. I didn't want to use Google DNS and instead opted for OpenDNS, plus I wanted my own directory structure, etc...

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m0nty10y ago

I'm using this on my Windows PC:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Disabled all ad-blockers and still don't get ads, and the whole experience seems faster. Presumably it takes longer for JavaScript-based utilities to block ads compared to just blackholing them in the hosts file? Anyway, might get a Raspberry Pi or just use an old small form-factor PC with it's own DNS server running the same list.

mirkulesOP10y ago

The Pi-Hole script uses that same list as part of a consolidated list: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/adlists.defau...

It then installs an updater via cron to check for updated lists every week.

As to your experience with speed, I'm kind of surprised. The only time I noticed a speed difference is when I blackholed domains in the hosts file that didn't resolve to a valid web server (i.e. resolving to 127.0.0.1 without having a web server running), and that's the opposite of what you describe. The pi-hole script also installs lighttpd to serve up a placeholder page, and uses some tricks like mod_expire to improve performance.

m0nty10y ago

Thanks for the link to the lists, I'll try rigging that for auto-update on my PC soon.

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m0nty10y ago

I'm using this on my Windows PC:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

mirkulesOP10y ago

The Pi-Hole script uses that same list as part of a consolidated list: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/adlists.defau...

It then installs an updater via cron to check for updated lists every week.

m0nty10y ago

Thanks for the link to the lists, I'll try rigging that for auto-update on my PC soon.

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