Pi-Hole is a really thing but I don’t think my tech skills are quite up to scratch. Plus I think the wife would get ratty if it stopped working while I was out.
If you run it bare metal (not in a dockercontainers for example) it’s quite easy to set it up on a raspberry pi or other hardware. The wife would even know it’s existence if you don’t tell her and use a standard config in the blocklists …give it a try …you’re gonna love it
Hahaha really?! My wife didn’t even noticed something different other than WhatsApp media files not loading (fixed whitelisting some wtt domain)… Too bad
Yup, the ad results in Google had to be whitelisted to increase the SO-acceptance-factor. But once that’s done it’s really not much of a hassle at all, but whitelisting is easy if you just check the recently blocked domains.
I eventually installed ad guard to remove the Google ad results (different browser plugins would work too). And indeed white listed some of the favorite shop links.
I roll with the hardened Firefox profile, a vpn and uBlock that it set up to block JavaScript and 3rd party apps by default. Even they breaks most websites and I have to manually approve which connections actually load the content I want to see.
If I can’t figure it out usually I get a similar answer two or three results down and the site just loads text fine 😅
Pi-Hole is a really thing but I don’t think my tech skills are quite up to scratch. Plus I think the wife would get ratty if it stopped working while I was out.
If you run it bare metal (not in a dockercontainers for example) it’s quite easy to set it up on a raspberry pi or other hardware. The wife would even know it’s existence if you don’t tell her and use a standard config in the blocklists …give it a try …you’re gonna love it
Ad links from emails won’t work anymore. And the “top results” in Google won’t work.
The wife would complain.
Hahaha really?! My wife didn’t even noticed something different other than WhatsApp media files not loading (fixed whitelisting some wtt domain)… Too bad
Yup, the ad results in Google had to be whitelisted to increase the SO-acceptance-factor. But once that’s done it’s really not much of a hassle at all, but whitelisting is easy if you just check the recently blocked domains.
I eventually installed ad guard to remove the Google ad results (different browser plugins would work too). And indeed white listed some of the favorite shop links.
That only works when you’re willing/allowed/able to configure each users private device. I probably could, but I’d prefer not to.
You can set one up your network and just point your DNS request at it on a device-by-device basis. So your wife would only use it if she wanted to.
Oh cool. That could be a good solution! Thanks!
I roll with the hardened Firefox profile, a vpn and uBlock that it set up to block JavaScript and 3rd party apps by default. Even they breaks most websites and I have to manually approve which connections actually load the content I want to see.
If I can’t figure it out usually I get a similar answer two or three results down and the site just loads text fine 😅