Finally set-up Pi-hole on my network

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Hello all / @vignesh_venkatesan,
Set it all up yesterday. Lot's of online sites with details steps were very helpful.

I'm attaching an image of this site... With ads
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Then using pi hole
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The same site...
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and without ads. Mods will probably ban me :ROFLMAO:
 
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We've 4 devices here with Netflix app installed. But it's mostly used by a fire tv stick. Pi shows 4200/7400 blocked queries are for Netflix!! I mean if N wants to track my user habits it just needs to check its internal database. Why should it program a device streaming it to ping it so often...

Im guessing its to know something specific about the device itself... Maybe the IP? To know who all are sharing one N account maybe?

ichnaea.netflix.com is the query in question. Its mentioned as - alogging endpoint used to collect client information. Has anyone else come across this?

Nikhil Sharma said:
I’m okay seeing Google Ads / Native ads. I just want to block popups. ^__^
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:) I think everyone will be handling popups by a browser adblock. I'm even okay with legal surveillance by our government. What I'm not okay is with every American digital goliath tracking my family's browsing habits for making money. Pi is my davidian step against them 😅
 
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Can we install pihole with Jio fiber as the upstream provider? It requires a static IP no?
 
No, you can install it on Jio or any connection even with CGN. If your isp redirects DNS queries to theirs you can setup encrypted DNS on the Pi and combine that with pihole
 
eriek_halenx said:
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We've 4 devices here with Netflix app installed. But it's mostly used by a fire tv stick. Pi shows 4200/7400 blocked queries are for Netflix!! I mean if N wants to track my user habits it just needs to check its internal database. Why should it program a device streaming it to ping it so often...

Im guessing its to know something specific about the device itself... Maybe the IP? To know who all are sharing one N account maybe?

ichnaea.netflix.com is the query in question. Its mentioned as - alogging endpoint used to collect client information. Has anyone else come across this?



:) I think everyone will be handling popups by a browser adblock. I'm even okay with legal surveillance by our government. What I'm not okay is with every American digital goliath tracking my family's browsing habits for making money. Pi is my davidian step against them 😅
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Maybe it continues to send request cause it failed and hence the large number..
 
I am currently using Adguard's DNS on my router. Apart from seeing logs and configuring my own whitelists, is there any other advantage of running PiHole? And whats the cheapest ethernet based solution for running it?
 
Yeah i figured. I guess for my parents, I'd stick with Adguard since the chances of that not working are lower.

I have ordered the Orange Pi Zero. Seemed quite cheap and reasonably powerful
 
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