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Recently saw a post regarding pi-hole, and I am considering to try it out. I am wondering if it would fit my usecase, so I want to ask about specifically what it solves.

I heard pi-hole blocks ads at DNS resolution level, so it does not block e.g. youtube ads. For me and my family who mostly watch youtube with handful of blog surfing, what value would it bring? Most blogs do not seem to contain much ads, so I am not sure ad-blocking helps much there.

Given the praise pi-hole is getting, I guess there are more to it than limited blocking of ads. I would love to learn more about this topic, as I am blind on the networking stuff. Thanks in advance!

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[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't the ISP pretty easily tell what website you are going to anyways? After all they are the one that ultimately connect you to the destination so they know the IP. Would just be one more step for them but they could figure out which domains resolve to that IP.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

DNS logging is the simplest way they'd track you, so you'd limit that

Reverse DNS lookups would be less precise as well as it'd just point to an IP owned by some cloud provider, so they'd have a hard time there

But yes a privacy respecting VPN is better, however I don't love browsing on a vpn as I hate captchas and like being able to access services I host on my local net