I ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 so I have a Pi 3 that’s about to be redundant. I haven’t used Pi-Hole so I was thinking it’d be good for that but I’m curious if there’s any downsides for users. Are sites blocked if you dont whitelist them? That sort of thing.

Basically, I’m not worried about me having issues but I’m worried about a maintenance headache if friends and family can’t access things.

  • @jackoneill@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11•9 months ago

    I have a pihole, I love it. My wife hates it so much I made her her own Wi-Fi network on her own vlan that’s isolated from the rest of the network and uses Google dns. My wife likes to click ads and watch TikTok and all that shit is blocked on my network

    • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      15•9 months ago

      … All you had to do is create a group in the pihole, set it to bypass the filters using a '*' whitelist entry, then assign any devices you want to bypass pihole to that group.

      • pancakesyrupyum
        7•9 months ago

        That person is suspicious that the rogue device without adblocking is going to poison the whole network.

        I won’t speak to the wisdom of that, but I’m going to imagine that’s what the issue with your suggestion is.