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How have you optimized your Pi-hole? (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago by Sal@mander.xyz to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml
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A few months ago I set up a Pi-hole at home. I tried to create a decent blacklist by first adding some regexes I found online and then doing some manual optimization by finding ads and blocking the ad requester through the queries page. But in the end it did not work so well. I still get a lot of YouTube ads, for example. So I still rely on uBlock for my ad-blocking.

I just read that Chrome is planning to start weakening ad blocker plugins. I use Firefox, but it is still worrying that the space could potentially keep moving in this direction over time. So I am now more invested in learning how to have more control over my ad-blocking.

Has any of you managed to optimize your Pi-hole to the point that it is possible to browse the internet without an ad-blocker? If so, how did you do it? Are there other good ad-blocking alternatives?

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[-] drwho@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I have a couple of blocklists loaded into the family Pi-Hole:

  • Steven Black's master list
  • Ad-Wars
  • Ad Away
  • hostsVN
  • yoyo.org's dynamic list

That seems to have knocked out maybe 94% of the ads we'd otherwise see. I can't speak for the rest of the famiy, but I still use uBlock Origin for Firefox to handle Youtube ads.

My strategy for the medium to long term is this: Given that browser-based adblocking is more and more likely to be killed off, or at least badly nerfed, I'm pushing adblocking out to the Pi-Hole and will leave streaming service ad blocking in the browser for as long as possible. If and when that eventually goes away I already have a bot running and used somewhat heavily to download video streams to view with Kodi or VLC.

[-] Sal@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I will keep those lists in mind. I have turned off my Raspberry Pi since then because I had some DNS issues, but:

Given that browser-based adblocking is more and more likely to be killed off, or at least badly nerfed, I’m pushing adblocking out to the Pi-Hole and will leave streaming service ad blocking in the browser for as long as possible.

That's a good point and it appears like we are getting closer to that reality.

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