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?

  • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I run pihole on proxomox, and also opnsense in the same box. Then you can forward all port 53 traffic to your pihole. Some devices have hard-coded DNS that will bypass the DHCP DNS.

      • zzzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        Chuck 'em in the garbage and get something that doesn’t break when you insist on privacy.

        • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Ha! This is my new way of looking at my smart devices. I’ll sell you off if you don’t do what I want, and buy something that does. Very much a threat.

          I recently factory reset all my Roku TVs, and didn’t connect them to the internet… and they work much better now.

          Roku broke big time when I insisted on privacy. blocked the entire Roku domain, it broke the apps on a 1-month schedule like clockwork to get the network release for reinstall which allowed for phone home. lol no. I trashed it. They are dumb TVs now.

          • zzzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ve done the same! It’s impossible to buy dumb TVs nowadays, but you can always prevent them from connecting to the network.

      • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Really? I run several Chromecasts, and I block their access to all DNS services except my internal Pi-holes. They work just fine.