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Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I'm looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will also cover the apps on my smart TV.

I run most of my self hosted services on a proxmox server, so I'd like something that'll run as an LXC container or a VM. I'm also vaguely aware that various competing applications have come out since pi-hole first gained popularity. Is pi-hole still the best thing going, or are there better options?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I have no experience outside of blocky, but the configuration file is so damm simple and clean I have troubles even considering anything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You should definitely set up pihole but I don't think it'll block ads on streaming apps unless I'm wrong and someone can point me to something that explains how I can set that up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's near impossible to block on streaming services because most of the ads are served up from the same DNS locations that the watchable media is hosted on.

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