Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky

• SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I use firebog’s ticked lists, from what I can tell from the logs ad domains are blocked just fine.

  But as I said, I have ublock origin on all my browsers which already catches most ads before they reach pihole, and I don’t use mobile a lot when I’m at home. Oh, and I also use Linux, so no Microsoft telemetry to block either.

  1.7% makes perfect sense to me.

  source

  • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I was averaging ~1-2% blocked using the firebog and a few other lists, added hagezi’s ‘pro plus’ list last month and it’s up to 39% blocked.

    source
  • mac@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah no ublock origin really won’t block all that many, the chattiest DNS comes from apps and smart devices, windows and mac laptops etc.

    I also run ublock on all of my devices.

    source

    • SpaceCadet@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah no ublock origin really won’t block all that many

      Meh, it’s fairly easy to check this you know. If I turn off uBlock, my pihole logs do turn red. If it’s left on, pihole logs stay mostly green, with nothing suspicious or out of the ordinary getting through.

      the chattiest DNS comes from apps and smart devices, windows and mac laptops etc.

      I don’t have many of those. My work laptop is windows but it connects through a VPN only, and I have my smartphone that I barely use at home.

      source