Christopher NeugebauerMar 1, 2023

Installed pi-hole on a spare tinycomputer, and moved my home network over maybe 4 hours ago.

The modern internet is horrifying.

Show threadKevin P. Fleming
@chrisjrn I have considered deploying this multiple times, but every time I am scared off by the potential Spousal Acceptance Factor problem when "Things Don't Work". If a website that she uses regularly suddenly starts misbehaving, and I have to dive into piHole to find out why part of it got blocked and how to unblock it... no thanks. Good idea, but potentially too costly for my situation.
Mar 1, 2023 at 4:04pmWeb
Show threadChristopher NeugebauerMar 1, 2023

@kevin yeah, that was certainly a concern I had. For what it's worth, I was considering setting up a separate subnet with the alternative DNS for testing purposes.

But a day of using it on my own, by overriding the DNS on individual devices, and it was really no different to using browser-based blockers. Maybe _slightly_ better for layout-related reasons?

Show thread6N3my6Mar 3, 2023
@kevin when set up Pihole for testing few years back, I set the Pihole as proxy on "my" devices. Rest of the network was untouched, so no interference with other people. Also no spying inside their network traffic possible that way.
Show threadKevin P. FlemingMar 3, 2023
@6N3my6 That's an interesting approach. Thanks!