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Does Pi-Hole disrupt anything important? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by ShittyBeatlesFCPres to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] clif 34 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Occasionally it's caused some problems with the tracking crapware that the spouse's company uses in their web platform. Since they work from home and it breaks the main site they use for work, I've had to add some exceptions.

I've also seen it occasionally cause problems on websites that rely on tracking garbage and outright fail when they're blocked. Usually I just never go there again but in a few cases it's been something I was forced to use so I just disable the pihole for five minutes, do what I need, and hope to never visit that site again.

I think there have been maybe eight of these occurrences in the past five years so it's not a continual annoyance. No big deal and definitely worth it.

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

Wait wait wait. Your spouse doesn't use a vpn for work? They rawdog your private, home network with it?

[–] BobbyShmurda 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. Do you know how many companies, even cyber security companies, that don't use a VPN for remote workers? A lot sadly...

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

I do, and I will raise concers every time I hear about it

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