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Looking for the best solution to block ads/trackers on my entire home network. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by land@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I want to block ads and trackers on the whole home network. I’ve been using adblockers and trackers for years now; I currently have a Raspberry Pi. I was thinking of setting up Pi-Hole with AdGuard. Any other suggestions are welcome. (I can’t use a custom router, because my ISP doesn’t allow it)

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[–] Xuderis@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Pi-hole works great for me, but everyone else on the network that uses Google hates it because the entire first page is ads and they can’t click on them.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For a mobile device / TV, sure.

For a browser on a computer, uBlock or AdNauseum will fix that.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, PiHole is great if you live by yourself otherwise the entire household will have it out for you.

Learned that lesson the hard way.

[–] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Dunno, I found it pretty easy to set up different rules for different devices.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yes! PiHole does offer whitelisting profiles for devices however, Apple/IOS devices with their “Private Wi-Fi addresses” make it pain given how the Mac Addresses regularly rotate.

[–] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 1 points 10 minutes ago

Oh wow - did not know that!

Bit of a weird choice, given that routers usually allow limiting connections to specific MAC addresses as a security feature. Everything's a trade-off, I guess...

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Only Apple the filtering to your MAC addresses.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I install some local adblocker to their devices and they don’t see those ads

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago

I have one SSID with pihole (which I use), and one without. Works pretty well, if you're ok with a VLAN-aware network.