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Block ADS On The Internet For Your Entire Family (peertube.wtf)
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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[-] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago

Hahaha my partner just started not using the wifi and didn’t tell me, I found out when her data ran out 🙄

[-] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I'd recommend setting an ad-blocking preferred DNS if the person isn't overly tech savvy

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 16 points 2 months ago

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

[-] IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Haha. Same with mine. She was mad that she was not seeing ads everywhere as she liked to interact with them and buy stuff.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

God regular people are so fucking weird haha. I just can't wrap my mind around wanting to click on ads.

Sometimes I wonder if working in local television news for 10 years and being subjected to ads basically constantly broke something in me.

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

Had a family member complaining that they couldn't access “the internet” and found that they only clicked ads on google searches...

(boggle)🧠

[-] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months 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.

[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Since the update my pi-hole is stoll blocking stuff, but I can not reach the interface anymore. I'm on DietPi and use Unbound as well.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/cannot-access-web-interface-after-pihole-6-update/77366/4

The git fsck failing showed a corrupt repository so I researched how to repair a git repository and found the tool git-repair - installed and ran this with the --force flag and this repaired the repository.

Then ran git pull and the repository was now healthy. My web UI also works now!!

Probably a silly feature request but would it be worthwhile to add a git fsck to all the pihole stores in the debug script?

To start you should go to your web admin folder at /var/www/html/admin and run a git fsck to make sure you're having the same problem as the person above. If you get a lot of failures, its likely the same issue.

So based on this resolved thread, it looks like you need to install git-repair and then once again go to your pihole web admin interface folder at /var/www/html/admin.

Then once in that folder run git-repair --force and then when that completes run git pull. Hopefully that resolves this issue for you.

[-] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago

I prefer adguard home, much better UI and updating it is easier...at least compared to last time I tried where i had to SSH in to the pi-hole to update it since it didn't allow it through the web interface like adguard home does. Not a big issue, but still a little annoying compared to just doing it from the web interface.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

i had to SSH in to the pi-hole to update it

You make it sound like a chore instead of a delight. Curious.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Especially if you've set up key verification for SSH, you don't even have to mess with a password.

Then it's literally just pihole -up

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah I don't think TUIs are a great way to interface with most things. It's a needlessly outdated method and provides an unnecessary barrier to less technically inclined people, and when a GUI interface is present anyways it just kind of dumb. TUIs are slower to execute things with than GUI 99% of the time, and always less intuitive.

I hate this ridiculous nerd trope of loving TUIs, it's getting old and over used.

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Anyone have any particularly good info about AdGuard re: Russia? My understanding is that the devs are Russian. Seems like they have set things up to explicitly be outside control of the regime, but it makes me worry without some ironclad info that it's safe.

[-] deadkennedy@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

i’d love to be able to get rid of youtube ads at the network level.

[-] mac@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not possible at the network level, unfortunately.

On some TVs you can sideload apps that'll do it.

Slightly similar, there is also sponsorblock for TVs, this doesn't need sideloading and is ran on any host on your LAN

https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV

[-] deadkennedy@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

oh, this will do nicely. thanks!

[-] mac@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Note this is just for "sponsored content" that creators may slip into their videos

[-] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Me too… piHole does not do this unfortunately, especially on anything that isnt a pc.

[-] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

At this point the ads are winning because its getting much harder to stop them. A well tuned pihole is great for browsing and it is really noticeable when Im away from home. It has to be tuned, blocklists are great but you will definitely be managing the lists yourself. It is SO EASY to do, it is the most user-friendly open-source network tool I have ever used! Sleep on this to your own peril

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

look into a VPN to your home network when you leave your house. you can also set it to "on demand" so it automatically turns on when you disconnect from your home wifi.

[-] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thats my next step considering that Im getting requests from house members for it. Took some time to smooth out the blocklists and now everyone loves it. Any recommendations for a pi3 running pihole with vpn?

[-] cymor@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Tailscale is nice and you can give different access to different people. It also tends to get past most VPN blocks.

[-] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you! Ill look into it

[-] 667@lemmy.radio 2 points 2 months ago

I had set up this configuration around 2016 and found it a little clunky. I called it a SkyHole. It was great, and now we have the ability to install DNS profiles on most phones, or configure DNS profiles for PCs such that I use a (“free”) commercial provider and get as blocking which takes care of 99% of the noise, and don’t have to fuss about with maintaining a dedicated device.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

and for your mobile devices you can set up an on-demand VPN to turn on whenever you're not on your home network.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Better yet, you can setup DoT or DoH, so no need for VPN. It's relatively easy to do with Adguard Home (one needs a domain and a certificate).

[-] 7112@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Read this as block AIDS

[-] limerod@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

I use Adguard for this purpose. You need a license to access some features. But, it can block ads even on sites which directly serve ads

this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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