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0 pointsshmoogy5y ago0 comments

This is why I don't run pihole or NextDNS at the network level anymore, my wife had too many annoyances with slick deals and other things. Whitelists covered most but not everything.

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ignoramous5y ago

> my wife had too many annoyances with slick deals and other things.

Running the browser remotely is one way. I usually abuse archive.is or brow.sh or startpage's anonymous browsing to that affect. Cloudflare bought a startup in the space...let's see what they come up with for the consumers: https://techstartups.com/2020/01/07/cloudflare-buys-remote-b...

May be, NextDNS and others through their in-browser plugin can optionally follow the redirects (remotely) to find if the eventual destination is not blacklisted (but that's too much of an ask since following HTTP redirects is different from DNS CNAMEs).

poitrus5y ago

NextDNS will soon have a solution to auto-follow tracking links and allow some blocked domains temporarily from the blockpage. Just make sure you install the root CA on all devices.

zzyzxd5y ago

pihole has an API to disable adblocking, which is just an HTTP request so it's pretty easy to trigger. For example, on iOS, write a shortcut so that you can "Hey Siri, disable pihole".

shmoogyOP5y ago

I gave her a shortcut that disabled Pihole via ssh but it was still annoying for her. I don't mind just running it on my devices. I pay for YouTube premium and other things already anyway.

0xEFF5y ago

When family members complain, I just configure their device to use 1.1.1.1 for DNS with a static DHCP reservation.

fluential5y ago

Same here + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/google-search...

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