If you use the default blocklists you might have no problem at all, if you go full bonkers with blocklists you might have to keep an eye on it sometimes and will mantain a whitelist of a handful of domains.
It is very painless.
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Depending on how you configure it you can run into issues with sites and apps that use trackers.
Nope, no issues.
I can’t think of any problems I’ve faced in over 3 years. I have an app on my phone that I can use to temporarily disable my Pi-hole if I need to do some testing, but I don’t know if I’ve ever had a situation where the Pi-hole was the source of a problem. Definitely not a maintenance headache. I run an update on it every now and then, but only because I see a notification that there is one, not because there’s something going wrong.
I'm using a bunch of blocklists, and the only downside I've experienced is Teams being blocked.
Kind of problematic when you look for a job ><
But once you whitelist it, no problem
Lots of downsides which proponents forget to mention.
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My wife clicks ads. I know, I couldn’t believe it either. Being unable to click ads made her sad, so I had to bypass all her devices.
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Many sites, including social media, are rendered inoperable. Either because their domains are black listed by a filter, or because the site refuses to load/render without being able to serve ads. Ad blockers have a similar issue, but it’s much worse with pihole.
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Lots of critical services rely on telemetry to operate. Office applications, operating systems, your TV, your phone. When they can’t access their telemetry servers, exception handling ranges from graceful to catastrophic. That is, many devices and applications will cease to function. You’ll spend a lot of time tracking down the apps, devices, processes, and IPs you need to whitelist. This is a HUGE PITA, and an ongoing process. Server IPs change, as do the number of servers required for operation.
I've seen it cause issues when you try and use Google Analytics console. You can add white list entries to groups and then add devices to that group. Works well.
You'll have to whitelist some Microsoft domains if you want to get achievements working for games that use a Microsoft account.