Pi-hole (Was: Re: Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently)

From	snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe)
Newsgroups	comp.security.misc, comp.internet.services.google, comp.misc, alt.privacy
Subject	Pi-hole (Was: Re: Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently)
Date	2019-02-01 11:48 +0000
Organization	Sn!peCo World Wide Wading Birds
Message-ID	<1o2bhmw.fk0tchff8dlfN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> (permalink)
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2019-02-01, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> >
[...] [Subject amended]
> >> 
> >> Get a PiHole.
> >> 
> >> <https://pi-hole.net/>
> >>
> >
> > Is that better than a hosts file such as is offered by MVPS?
> > <https://mvpshostsnews.blogspot.com> 
> > I find it works well, is easy to set up and needs no extra hardware.
> >
>
> I'll let you know definitively soon, since my PiHole hardware arrived
> a couple of days ago, and I already run a fairly large hosts file
> (incorporating the MVPS one), presently [tap, tap, tap] some 18,000
> hosts. The PiHole one is larger and it has the ability to blackhole
> entire domains, without having to add individual machines, saving
> pain like having to add;
> 
> 0.0.0.0     a.spammingfucks.com
> 0.0.0.0     b.spammingfucks.com
> 0.0.0.0     c.spammingfucks.com
> 0.0.0.0     d.spammingfucks.com
> 0.0.0.0     e.spammingfucks.com
> 
> And so on. Also, the PiHoles lists are automatically updated, saving
> me having to do it.
>

I look forward to hearing about it, I could do with a 
nice little project.  I did think about doing something 
similar on my Synology router but eventually decided 
that discretion was the better part of valour when 
fiddling with something so central to the network that 
my better half relies on...

-- 
^Ï^     My pet rock Gordon just is.

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