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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have you experienced any downsides to using pi hole? Does anything stop working?

[–] justcoding_de 4 points 1 year ago

Obviously the first ad links in google don’t work any more, which drives the wife crazy ;-) Also nowadays more and more websites complain about me using an adblocker.

But technically, not really any problems at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I used to before but my family was extremely bothered that they couldn't click on ad links. If I remember correctly, it's pretty easy to set up if you want to just try it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In the 6 years I've ran mine, I've not had any issues and I run a blocklist with over 1 million domains on it.

If I was to run into something that's blocked that I do want loaded, I can just open the pihole interface and either whitelist the blocked domain or disable blocking for a short time, each with just a couple clicks.