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?

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
    3·
    11 months ago

    I run pihole and my wireguard VPN server locks all queries through it, which in turn uses unbound and queries via different providers like Cisco’s OpenDNS, Cloudflare and Quad9. However, I wanted to present a similar offering that also has a free-tier without a query cap for people interested.

    • brrtEnglish
      26·
      11 months ago

      Your „free“ option just requires buying hardware that enables all of it and an intensive setup process and knowledge which might be quite time consuming.

      It may be a good solution but it’s far from free for many people.

      • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
        4·
        11 months ago

        The free solution I was referring to was my comment about using ControlD, which certainly offers a free service…which is the comment that the other person was responding to.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Two things:

        • A free solution was already being talked about.
        • You can easily run pihole/adguard home on $20 hardware by following basic tutorials. It’s far from complex.