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      Alex Sage
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      The biggest win with this is mobile ads. Many mobile sites are practically unusable with Ads.

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        scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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        @aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

        The biggest win with this is mobile ads. Many mobile sites are practically unusable with Ads.

        That's pretty nice. And it's all so easy, just happens on your network transparently once you add it to DHCP.

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          brandon220
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          Damn. Now I'm going to have to try it at the house. Looks like a winner.

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            Alex Sage @scottalanmiller
            last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in Pi Hole:

            @aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

            The biggest win with this is mobile ads. Many mobile sites are practically unusable with Ads.

            That's pretty nice. And it's all so easy, just happens on your network transparently once you add it to DHCP.

            That's what I did 🙂

            My roommate wants to know if we upgraded the internet lol

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              scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
              last edited by

              @aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

              @scottalanmiller said in Pi Hole:

              @aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

              The biggest win with this is mobile ads. Many mobile sites are practically unusable with Ads.

              That's pretty nice. And it's all so easy, just happens on your network transparently once you add it to DHCP.

              That's what I did 🙂

              My roommate wants to know if we upgraded the internet lol

              In a way, you did. The stats that I am seeing suggests that it is a little like getting an 8% boost!

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                scottalanmiller
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                • QuixoticJustinQ
                  QuixoticJustin
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                  Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.

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                    JaredBusch @QuixoticJustin
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                    @quixoticjustin said in Pi Hole:

                    Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.

                    I assume that's I can specify the forwarders that this will use? Because I am using strongarm.io and so not want to lose that service.

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                      scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                      last edited by

                      @jaredbusch said in Pi Hole:

                      @quixoticjustin said in Pi Hole:

                      Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.

                      I assume that's I can specify the forwarders that this will use? Because I am using strongarm.io and so not want to lose that service.

                      I'm sure that you can. During install it asks you to pick from a list of options (Google, OpenDNS, etc.) but I'm not sure how you determine it after the fact. But probably easy.

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                        black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in Pi Hole:

                        @jaredbusch said in Pi Hole:

                        @quixoticjustin said in Pi Hole:

                        Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.

                        I assume that's I can specify the forwarders that this will use? Because I am using strongarm.io and so not want to lose that service.

                        I'm sure that you can. During install it asks you to pick from a list of options (Google, OpenDNS, etc.) but I'm not sure how you determine it after the fact. But probably easy.

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                        • brandon220B
                          brandon220
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                          Installed it last night on a Fedora VM. Works really well. Should have done it a long time ago.

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                            Alex Sage @brandon220
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                            @brandon220 Me too! 🙂

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                              brandon220
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                              I was amazed at the stats page and how much was being blocked. Very big difference. There are a ton of sites that balk at using ad-blockers though.

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                                marcinozga @brandon220
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                                @brandon220 said in Pi Hole:

                                I was amazed at the stats page and how much was being blocked. Very big difference. There are a ton of sites that balk at using ad-blockers though.

                                There are ad blockers that block scripts balking at you for blocking ads.

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                                  Alex Sage @brandon220
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                                  @brandon220 Is your internet faster? Mine seems to be...

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                                    brandon220 @Alex Sage
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                                    @aaronstuder I had to leave for flooding so I didn't get much testing done. I am back home now and plan on doing some testing tonight.

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                                      gjacobse @brandon220
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                                      @brandon220 said in Pi Hole:

                                      @aaronstuder I had to leave for flooding so I didn't get much testing done. I am back home now and plan on doing some testing tonight.

                                      Hope things in your locale aren't to bad with your return.

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                                        Alex Sage @gjacobse
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                                        @gjacobse said in Pi Hole:

                                        @brandon220 said in Pi Hole:

                                        @aaronstuder I had to leave for flooding so I didn't get much testing done. I am back home now and plan on doing some testing tonight.

                                        Hope things in your locale aren't to bad with your return.

                                        We too 😕

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                                        • magicmarkerM
                                          magicmarker
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                                          Pi-Hole is a dead simple install with DietPi. It's a check box. I downloaded the VMware VM and then used the Starwind Converter to convert the VMware image to .vhd so I could use it on my Windows 10 Hyper-V. DietPi has a VirtualBox VM as well for download. Or if you got a Raspberry Pi, use that.

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                                            brandon220 @gjacobse
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                                            @gjacobse @aaronstuder We sand bagged our house and my brother's down the street. It was very close but all is good. It was worth all the effort. Many others were not as lucky.

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