papa2
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We already established that
We already established that
I don't see that, it's still software but running on a different bit of hardware. I would class a router to be hardware based.
Talking of paranoia, there are lots of companies that say they do nothing with the data they collect and that do something bad with it, look at the recent facebook scandal. There are plenty of VPN's that do the same, say they dong log anything but really mean they don't log almost anything, that way they can lie to their customers just a little bit.
Just ordered a new power brick for my Pi as the old one burned out for being on too long playing mame games.
I might give it a go on an old Dell I have, got to be better than running a Pi.
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its very lightweight. it will run fine on a pi since that is what it is intented for.
i doubt you will see any improvement at all running on the dell unless you have a lot of hosts on your network and have some of the more advance features enabled.
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My worry when using the PI was that it did not have a Gigabyte port. I've noticed no slow down or any kinda performance issue. So I agree with you that the PI is the way to go. If Captin is only going to try it then the dell would do but i think you have to install Linux first!
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I've just installed on my Pi 3. Its running and shows my client, total queries, blocked queries etc but not sure its blocking as well as the Adblock extention I was using in Chrome.
If I go to yahoo.com, I still see all the Ads on the right side for the World cup, unicef. Should I still see these?
If I go to yahoo.com, I still see all the Ads on the right side for the World cup, unicef. Should I still see these?
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Not sure they are considered ads...... I think ads were talking here are ones provided by Googleadsservice type ones. When i google something I can't use the sponsored link as pihole blocks it i have to go to the bonafide site. ON facebook if i click as shorlink that takes you to an advert it just takes you back to facebook.
Read this and see if your pi-hole is working or not. Give you test to try.
Pages To Test Ad-blocking Performance
I suppose the only way to test it to try with and without pihole....
Read this and see if your pi-hole is working or not. Give you test to try.
Pages To Test Ad-blocking Performance
I suppose the only way to test it to try with and without pihole....
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Thanks. The link confirms its installed and running. I will keep playing with it.
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Right click Copy Link Location and paste into your Pi-Hole at /admin/settings.php?tab=blocklists then save.
When complete Save and Update.
https://smokingwheels.github.io/qb64/piholelogext.bas
YOU might have to whitelist a few sites like argos, amazon, facebook etc.
When complete Save and Update.
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/allhosts
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/searchengine
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/yacysearchengine
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/searchengine1
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/fromlog
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/fromlogtosh
https://smokingwheels.github.io/qb64/piholelogext.bas
YOU might have to whitelist a few sites like argos, amazon, facebook etc.
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Gigabyte port not going to make any difference unless you have a load of extra things enabled on the pi-hole/pi. It is only resolving domain names to IPs so the size of the packets is tiny. Also dns requests and replys are UDP so no SYN ACK etc like in TCP which further reduces the bandwidth used.
below is screenshot of worst case scenario if Pi-Hole can't resolve the DNS name. e.g host > pi-hole, pihole > remote DNS, remote DNS > pihole and pihole > host. as you can see it less than 400 bytes the whole process.
add the links fusion suggested in post #29 and the list i posted in post #2
the default blacklist isn't very good. pi-hole is only effective if it has a decent blacklist. on average i have 25% of DNS request blocked
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My concern is not to do with the running of the software but more that hardware.
I would much rather leave a small Dell pc or an Asus tiny pc running 24/7/365 than a pi and wall wart power supply, even though I have active cooling on the pi etc...
Plus I have several Dell workstations and a couple of tiny pc's lying about from previous projects.
I have decided to use my Asus tiny pc as I've retired it as my media centre in favour of the nvidia Shield. I know the Asus can run 24/7/365 without any problems and it doesn't even get warm.
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just remember the cost of running the pi is very low compared to the others. depending on the machine it could easily cost a minimum of £80 per year.
A friend of mine bought a server a few years back and never took the cost of running the machine into account. he then found out it cost more than £300 a year just to run.
The power brick on the Asus tiny PC is actually lower wattage than the one that came in my Pi starter kit. Plus it's a fully regulated power supply, unlike the cheap chinese one for the pi which regulates itself by getting very hot to dissipate the energy it's wasting.
The mrs is an accountant so I'm well away of every little watt we use.
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- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/allhosts
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/searchengine
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/yacysearchengine
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/searchengine1
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/fromlog
- https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/fromlogtosh
Agenda-driven DNS?
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It only blocks google if using one of those lists so more like an agenda driving blacklist
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just another site for block lists. I'd not use all of them at once. To use, just hover on the 'more info' link and click copy link address and add to pihole(or whatever you use for anti spam)
ads blocklist
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I wouldn't know to be honest, it only takes a few minutes to reinstall and this is what i always do.
if you have a custom host file like i do just take a copy and enter it back after install
