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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 101 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You guys pay youtube?

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

PiHole exists!

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Pihole does not stop youtube ads as they are served through youtube's domains. You need ublock or something like that.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

DuckDuckGo player does pretty good.

[–] Town@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Having everything connected to the router automatically get ad blocking is great.

I do wish the pihole was easier to use. I don't think my parents would be up for manually updating it via SSH in a console.

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can access the web client from any connected machine and do it from there.

Also you can save the IP from the machine running it as a local DNS entry, something like pi.hole, so they can just type pi.hole/admin in the browser to access the dashboard

[–] Town@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

Where do you enter the 'pihole -up' command in the web client?

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Forreal I use pihole and I get ads. Is bro on something we don’t know about? Why say anything about pihole if you literally have never used it lol

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Stupid question, but does pihole offer any substantial benefit over using a remote ad-blocking DNS like AdGuard or whatever?

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

They're basically the same thing

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Please ignore the other two commenters.....

Adblockers block ads at the user level, meaning you have to manage the adblocker for each device in your ecosystem.

PiHole and similar DNS based ad blocking technologies OTOH block ads at the network level and only needs one install location to manage content for all devices you have on your network.

This means with PiHole you can have one set of custom rules that block all ads at the network level by using a set of pre-loaded and customizeable DNS blocklists. OR! you can install Ublock on 2 devices in your house and let the other 7 devices that have no access to adblockers (like IoT devices) be subject to the atrocity that is modern advertising.

Additionally, adblockers in browsers can eventually be shut off. See: Google Chrome and Ublock Origin.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

But what does a pihole (which is DNS blocking) do that AdGuard's free public DNS (which is DNS blocking) doesn't? Of course uBlock Origin alongside them is better, but what's a pihole specifically doing?

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I was pretty specific as to what advantages PiHole has over Ublock alone.

Please re-read the above comment and lmk if I can clarify anything.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 4 points 4 weeks ago

He was asking about pi hole versus and AdGuard DNS.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

And I was pretty specific about PiHole over AdGuard's public DNS. And to be honest, the person you originally replied to was as well.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes but there are public DNS servers that block blacklisted domains. I can set that as DNS in my router settings and it works the same as using pihole as a blacklisting DNS server, right?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s a good way to dip your toes into learning about Linux, self-hosting, and administering reliable services.

Functionally they are the same though.

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Please see my comment parallel to yours.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This thread is about dns level blocking not client side blocking.

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Its both, actually. Ublock is client side and only available on Firefox, PiHole is network wide and available for anyone who can setup a simple DNS server.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yes. And the person I replied to was asking if running your own dns is somehow different than using an opinionated dns service. The answer is no.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to set one up someday. I just need to get around to it

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Story of my life.....