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    [–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    My Raspberry Pi SD card finally died after almost 10 years, and I was hosting Pi-Hole on it. After a year of Pi-Hole I didn't realize how many things had freaken ads. They pop up everywhere! I really need to get a new SD card :(

    [–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Then install log2ram to avoid constant writes to SD card. Or install DietPi instead of the stock OS, its installed automatically. Honestly DietPi just rocks for SBCs in general, good text UI and utilities.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Is dietPi the same as PiOS lite? I use PiOS lite with no GUI etc

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Probably not, think of it as a different distro. It is Debian based, and supports many different SBCs and not just the RPi. https://dietpi.com/

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    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    10 years is a pretty good run for an SD card.. was it an endurance SD? That’s what I’m running. Fried a non-endurance one in under a year, replaced it with an endurance and reduced log writing frequency with some config change and have been cruising for 3-4 years so far.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

    Endurance cards are so worth it. They’re what I use in my Pi units and our dash cams. I just whish I hadn’t fried so many normal cards before coming around.

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    [–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

    Its an old meme sir, but it checks out

    [–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    When I want an ad gone, I reach for brand name soda. Brand name soda, it means you're smart.

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    [–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not if it is my ad, Golden Globe nominated movie, Barbie, is now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.

    Nowhere is safe. No where.

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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)
    [–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    That only stops browser activity? What about windows, discord, nvidia, ... ? :p
    Those are all blocked on my pihole ( i run both pihole and ublock btw )

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I guess I just don't trust Windows discord and Nvidia. I don't think DNS filtering will protect you if they control the computer

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    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Works great when you have a device that can use it.

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't bother with PiHole because DNS-based ad blocking quite frankly sucks and is only getting worse.

    I'm still waiting for someone like AdGuard to release a MITM proxy that does something similar to uBlock Origin and strips ads directly from the network traffic

    But until then, browser extensions are good enough for most usecases (Firefox user so the adblocking ones work on mobile as well)

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I wish I could pi-hole.

    I use NextDNS and it's good for my devices, but Google sponsored links won't work with it. Sometimes I have to turn it off temporarily to get something done.

    Also, my wife works from home in social media. I can't really block ads network-wide because she needs to see them.

    😕

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

    You can setup separate vlans, or even separate networks for allowing the ads if you need.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You can - my wife works with ads as well.

    What I ended up doing - I set her laptop with a static IP and added TCP and UDP routes for port 53 (the one used for DNS queries) to 8.8.8.8 - no complaints since ;) I use a cheap Mikrotik router between my ISP one and the actual network (well, a NAS and a Unifi AP, the rest is wireless) so doing it was easy ;)

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    We're on holidays and the kids had me install WireGuard on their devices to get rid of the ads, you know, like it is at home.

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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Does YouTube trigger his anti-adBlock with a piHole?

    [–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

    YouTube ads come from the same server as the content so you can’t isolate them with pihole

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

    No because pi-hole does not block YT ads

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

    uBlock Origin on Firefox still works great if you keep the filters up to date every once in a while c:

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    My block ads Magisk module:

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Tell me, what is your most reliable ad list source?

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

    Personally I use Stevenblack's default one, in combination with a personal one that i've curated since 2019. Previously I used to use MVPS, however that list's included in the SB default.

    Stuff that tends to slip through the cracks with a lot of the common lists includes things like admiral 🤬, user session recorders, and app monitoring platforms like sentryio (useful for development, but I didn't consent my activity being recorded). There's also Bauer Media Group garbage that I've resorted to creating firewall packet inspection rules for, because they're using a subdomain technique that's even worse than Admiral's autogenerated domains - at least with those you can use DNS analysis tools like dnsdumpster to uncover the rest of autogenerated domains in that batch

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've used Pihole for so long.. I bought the original pi as a curiosity but Pihole was best use of it.

    Here is the problem though, which i assume applies to all adblockers: everything is now "sponsored links". Google, Amazon, etc. They are of course blocked which is getting really frustrating.

    So what do we do now? Is there a way to just send fake telemetry? Saw VLANs mentioned. Is that the way? I'm getting older and life gets busier and it's harder for me to keep up on this.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I don't quite understand the use-case for the pi-hole. Why use it, when one could simply use something like µBlock Origin?

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    µBlock Origin is great for browsers that support extensions. But that won't get most Android TV ads or Apple TV users. And I suspect many of the people with pi hole also use µBlock Origin for redundancy.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

    Correct. I haven't seen an ad for years.

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    cant use adblocking on xbox/roku/etc.

    pihole blocks ads on those.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    One example. Can't really AD block ios that easily. But with a pi hole you don't need to worry about anything.

    Just setup the pi hole static IP as the dns in your routers settings and all devices are behind the one interface.

    Got an issue? Just login to the pi hole website to manage it. White list some critical AD site for some stupid mobile game your kids play for example.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It blocks ads in apps on your cell phone too, not just in browsers

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    Ads are not only present in the browser. For example, there are Smart (not really lol) TVs that have ads embedded right into the operating system (https://reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/co5aw4/unremovable_ads_on_my_2500_samsung_smart_tv/). You can't install an adblocker there, but a DNS based filter will know how to deal with this. There are other alternatives, some are cloud hosted like NextDNS or ControlD, there are other local alternatives like AdguardHome or PfBlockerNG if you run a PfSense Firewall. There are also simple solutions like AdGuard's Public DNS or Mullvad's Adblocking DNS servers. If you use an iPhone or iPad, you can easily download a configuration profile that includes the DNS settings for these services. I think NextDNS offers a similar service. On Android, you can just set up Dns over TLS, I think it's called Private DNS in the settings. DNS adfiltering can't get rid of all ads though, e.g. YouTube's mechanism for displaying ads is resistant to DNS filtering. That's what uBlock Origin if for though.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    And there's also AdBlock plugin in OpenWRT

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