My retired parents live with me. I went ahead and put a PiHole on our home wifi. A day later my mother was literally complaining that she couldn’t click on ads on facebook. I told her those are ads and they track her and she says “well everyone likes to use the internet how they like to use it.. can you put it back the old way? I want to look at these shoes”. Can’t fucking win.

[–] jarredpickles87@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife turns off the WiFi on her phone to avoid the pihole. She does this so she can watch the ads in her games to get an extra life or whatever. You'll never win on that front and I won't either.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get so pissed off when I try to play sudoku on the bus and it forces me to watch 30 seconds of ads between each game. And then during the game I have to ignore the flashing banner ad at the bottom of the screen.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just pay for a good offline sudoku app. It probably costs less than a cup of coffee. Then we'll all be happier.

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

or get an open source, free and privacy friendly one from f-droid in case you haven't tied your hands with an iphone