I’ve run Pi-hole in my homelab for years and benefited from using the service. As well as the hands-on education.

With that said, what is everyone else’s experience with the software? Do you use Pi-hole in your homelab setup? I would assume many hundreds of thousands of people use Pi-hole.

Edit #1:

The image attached to this post is my RPi 5, which hosts the Pi-hole software. Big supporter of the whole “SBCs for learning and home improvement” mentality.

Edit #2:

It is interesting to see the broad support for Pi-hole and DNS blockers in general. The more options, the healthier the tech ecosystem is, which benefits everyone.

  • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    turned this feature off only because it doesn’t work for the websites that have arguably the most ad content (youtube

    That’s not what piHole is for. If you want to block youtube’s ads you need to install uBlock origine as addon in your browser (if your browser still allows it!) Or self-host something like invidious or use one of the working public instances (if privacy focused).

    I don’t know if it works with twitch though 🤷‍♂️

    • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      11 hours ago

      I mean, it seems like Pihole is generally talked about first as a “ad filter” when it’s discussed online and second as a dns resolver. But either way, just saying that the use for that is pretty much overblown and not worth actually trying for a smart tv, for example, where you can’t normally block ads anyway. (Might be nice for preventing software updates, though.)