Considering setting up a pi-hole to block ads everywhere. Anyone have one? How hard was it to get going?
Welcome! No automatic blocking yet so the bears might still come.🐻🐨 I'm looking into a Pi-0 to stop them. 🛑
I looked into getting a "lesser Pi" for the Pi-hole but the difference between a Pi 1B vs. 3B is so small it doesn't matter.
Orange Pi is stupidly cheap but doesn't have the community in case things don't work.
There's the concern that adblockers like the pi-hole will hurt publishers more than advertisers and whitelisting select domains is probably the best option.
@dulcet I hadn't heard of it until I saw your posts. In this case it looks like it shouldn't largely matter. It's even been tossed in a Docker container so depending on your locally available resources, you could just run it that way for "free". I'm looking into that now...
I'd just set it next to my NAS and run it as a DNS server and hopefully I'm using the right terms. That way it can block ads for my phone and for my IoT devices.
@dulcet it's certainly a reasonable option to dedicate a little board to something like this. My personal problem with that is lack of space. If your NAS is fancy enough, it might support Docker already, and in this case I mean you can run pi-hole as a Docker service for your whole network. Similarly if you have some other always-on device that's running Docker for whatever, it could live there. Or just put it on a real-Pi or Orange Pi or whatever your comfortable with :)
Good points. I try to keep my NAS shielded from the internet although it's probably secure enough behind my router's firewall. I may play around with pi-hole Docker image on it to get a feel for the software and put a real Pi on a relative's network. Thanks for the suggestion!
If you want to read more about the pi-hole, this is a good article.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-10/inside-the-brotherhood-of-pi-hole-ad-blockers
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