Block ADS On The Internet For Your Entire Family - eviltoast
  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    …until your family complains that their favorite site has stopped working.

    Pi-Hole these days allows you to create Groups so you can set certain devices to fewer or less restrictive blocklists or just leave their connection untouched entirely. Groups is basically how you solve the problem of it breaking something for someone else.

    Source: Pissed off my roommate who I somehow accidentally blocked from using Google to appraise his magic cards or something.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, you always have to account for the Wife Factor with things like this. Good luck convincing your wife to stop clicking on sponsored links on Google, especially when it’s what she’s searching for.

      • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        I might have to try that. I had pi hole set up but my gf couldn’t use facebook so I was politely asked to remove it

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          Whitelisting facebook was real easy. Just by checking the query log you can identify what to whitelist and single click on a button will fix it.

          • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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            2 days ago

            I think it was specifically for mobile - I whitelisted the facebook domain (easy) but blocking various ad servers would also break functionality on the site.

    • WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world
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      Yeah I run it on my wifi. Yesterday it killed rouvy.com when I wanted to go for a ride. I don’t think it has decreased the number of ads I see either - all devices runs adblockers anyway

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfOP
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      3 days ago

      Oh haha! My wife had a similar issue with Google and those “deals” it shows, when searching for something to buy :D

    • raptir@lemmy.zip
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      It all just depends on the level of blocking you put in place. Basic adblock and malware lists tend to not break much if anything. It’s when you get into tracker blocking that some sites break.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        I’ll definitely give those a spin when I’ve done a fresh install of pihole 6. I’ve been hesitant to do so because I don’t know how to do a fresh install easily when I’ve already used unbound to make my pi-hole a recursive DNS server and one of my pi-holes also doubles as an immich server so I have to do a lot of backing up I as of yet have been too lazy to do.

    • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      For months my wife couldn’t download podcasts off Spotify only for me to discover it was pihole the entire time.