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I ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 so I have a Pi 3 that’s about to be redundant. I haven’t used Pi-Hole so I was thinking it’d be good for that but I’m curious if there’s any downsides for users. Are sites blocked if you dont whitelist them? That sort of thing.

Basically, I’m not worried about me having issues but I’m worried about a maintenance headache if friends and family can’t access things.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“eight of these occurrences”

I’ve been using various forms of adblock for many years. If a website refuses to show you the information it contains: the information it has is probably toxic garbage.

I’ve lived by “if it doesn’t load, I doesn’t need it” for over a decade and I’ve never encountered a problem I couldn’t easily solve better without the troublesome webpage.

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

If a website refuses to show you the information it contains: the information it has is probably toxic garbage.

Ehhh. I've seen a number of news websites that have a "turn off your ad blocker" thing, and I'd imagine that this could trip that. They aren't malware sites.

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

90% of the time you can inspect element and then just delete it from the DOM.

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

Or drop into reader mode.

[–] clif 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While I agree with the sentiment, it doesn't really pan out for "complete this contract/form if you want to get paid" or "your job requires you to use our internal platform all day every day and we added click tracking to it but aren't smart enough to make the site function when it's blocked"