Comment on Your TV is watching you

• nickiam2@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No, unless the game you’re playing is trying to download ads then you might have some minor issues but it shouldn’t effect online multiplayer.

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• chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Used one for about a year. No. I play stuff online alot, so its important to me. No slowdowns. It has nothing to do with your ping.

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  • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In fact, a good pihole will speed things up.

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What games are you playing that regularly send out lots of DNS requests to different domains?

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  • Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mainly play Final Fantasy XIV. I assume they don’t hit up DNS, but they’re not open source, so we can only hope they don’t.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My (very basic) understanding of a pihole is that it calls out to an upstream DNS provider (such as the one you’d be using without a pihole) and caches everything it gets back, meaning that it’s only making new requests when you’re querying a domain it hasn’t queried before. I can’t think of any reason a game would need to constantly be accessing different domains (except maybe for some kind of server browser?)

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