pi-hole any downsides to using it

[Galdorf]

https://pi-hole.net/
Works on many Linux distro looking to setup one up in customers home he is sick of ads popping up.

 

[Markverhyden]

Interesting, thanks for the tip. Never heard of it.

 

[phaZed]

It works well. The only issues I had with it were things to be expected. For example, if the Pi Hole sucks up something by mistake or if a site's loading or function hinges on showing you the 'holed' content. If you have a problem with ABP on a site, expect to have the same issue on the Pi Hole.

 

[timeshifter]

I've heard of it because it's a popular application for a Raspberry Pi.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

I use in in an Ubuntu Server VM for our office. Overall it works great, I use uBlock Origin on top at the endpoint as well. The issue I have with it is it can sometimes be hard to get whitelisted items to actually work. I typically have to restart the VM in order to get it to work, however it's very rare that I need to whitelist anything.

 

[Bryce W]

Run this on a Pi-Zero on my network. As others said, only downsides is the occasional blocking of something you don't want blocked.
Otherwise it's great.

 

[Umbra]

This thread reminds me to buy a cheap unit to install PFsense and Pi-Hole on it..

 

[NJW]

I have pi-hole and PiVPN running on a Pi B2 since the beginning of the year and it has been excellent. It is so noticeable when I'm on a client's machine without it!

For a quick change to bypass the pi-hole, I have a different network profile set up with external DNS, but its very rarely necessary – it usually just confirms that a website has its own problems, not caused by the pi-hole.

Highly recommended.

 

[MichaelBits]

Off topic.

I giggle every time I see the title to this thread...

 

[SpaceSquad]

Running a Ubuntu Server pihole VM on my proxmox server. Have not encountered a real issue yet. Lovely stats as well!

 

[tucsonpc]

I've been using pihole at home on a raspi 2 for a while now (over a year?). I echo the same thing as others: occasional blockage of unintended sites, but generally awesome.

Be careful adding more block lists, as you will virtually guarantee excessive blocks, but 'out of the box' works pretty well.