I’ve never tried Pihole but maybe I’ll try to set it up. What happens when ads try to play when it’s enabled? Are they just blank? Or if someone is watching a streaming service and an ad tries to come up what happens?
Also what happens if the device running Pihole goes down, as in if I have it running from an old device and it loses connection or restarts. Does everything just stop resolving names until it’s back up?
If the ad is under a filtered domain, it will simply not load. If the ad is under the same domain as the site you are using (ex. Youtube) they will load just fine.
When the primary DNS is down, the secondary DNS will be used. This is the same regardless if PiHole is used or not, but is how DNS works.
Many add just don’t show up. The reserved space stays white. Also, depending on the aggressiveness of your block list, some pages don’t resolve (just like they never existed). E.g when you click on adds in a google search result, it leads to nowhere.
Short outtakes make no difference. It is your primary source for matching names to IPs. Depending on your configuration you can have alternative sources.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Been running an AWS Lightsail instance for years, and before that on prem. Don’t even notice it’s running! But when I see other people’s internet experience I’m left thinking, “What’s all this crap?!”
Ex-wife was bitching about my “blueberry pie” or whatever fucking up FaceBook links. FINE. Turned it off. “The internet’s slow!” Looked over her shoulder:
“See all that stuff loading? Ad, ad, ad, ad, ad, ad…”
“FINE! Turn it back on!”
Haven’t logged into my instance for a year or more, no maintenance. Going to move it back to a Raspberry Pi or a VM when I get motivated. On Windows 11 now and M$ totally hosed Hyper-V for desktop operating systems and I don’t want to spin another computer.
tl;dr: WELL worth spending an evening on the project. Hardest part is spinning up a Debian or Ubuntu server, VM or bare metal. The install is hilariously simple.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Comically enough I didn’t think about it long, I actually had it up and running on my jellyfin server by 11 this morning. Haven’t played with it much yet just set my router DNS to it.
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