I gave a friend a raspberry pi a while ago and just this last week they asked me to come and set it up with Pihole for them. They’re very happy to not have ads on their TV anymore. The only hiccup has been that their network connected cat litterbox (lol) doesn’t tell them when the cat has pooped anymore.
parpol@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
If the Pihole is catching and blocking it, it is possible to have it trigger a script that for example registers a push notification. Since they have a Pihole, they could also run a self-hosted push notification service on the same device if they don’t want to use the Google or Apple Push notification systems.