I’ve been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I’m looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will also cover the apps on my smart TV.

I run most of my self hosted services on a proxmox server, so I’d like something that’ll run as an LXC container or a VM. I’m also vaguely aware that various competing applications have come out since pi-hole first gained popularity. Is pi-hole still the best thing going, or are there better options?

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
    3·
    6 months ago

    I run pihole and my wireguard VPN server locks all queries through it, which in turn uses unbound and queries via different providers like Cisco’s OpenDNS, Cloudflare and Quad9. However, I wanted to present a similar offering that also has a free-tier without a query cap for people interested.

    • brrt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Your „free“ option just requires buying hardware that enables all of it and an intensive setup process and knowledge which might be quite time consuming.

      It may be a good solution but it’s far from free for many people.

      • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
        4·
        6 months ago

        The free solution I was referring to was my comment about using ControlD, which certainly offers a free service…which is the comment that the other person was responding to.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Two things:

        • A free solution was already being talked about.
        • You can easily run pihole/adguard home on $20 hardware by following basic tutorials. It’s far from complex.