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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] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you use the default blocklists you might have no problem at all, if you go full bonkers with blocklists you might have to keep an eye on it sometimes and will mantain a whitelist of a handful of domains.

It is very painless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have like 4 million domains in my blocklist and I have yet to encounter any issues or hear any complaints from my roommate.

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

I can’t think of any problems I’ve faced in over 3 years. I have an app on my phone that I can use to temporarily disable my Pi-hole if I need to do some testing, but I don’t know if I’ve ever had a situation where the Pi-hole was the source of a problem. Definitely not a maintenance headache. I run an update on it every now and then, but only because I see a notification that there is one, not because there’s something going wrong.

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

Nope, no issues.

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

Depending on how you configure it you can run into issues with sites and apps that use trackers.

[–] jelloeater85 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen it cause issues when you try and use Google Analytics console. You can add white list entries to groups and then add devices to that group. Works well.

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

You'll have to whitelist some Microsoft domains if you want to get achievements working for games that use a Microsoft account.

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

I'm using a bunch of blocklists, and the only downside I've experienced is Teams being blocked.

Kind of problematic when you look for a job ><

But once you whitelist it, no problem

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