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?

  • supernicepojo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    PiHole runs great on older Raspberry Pi’s(I am still using a pi3). Older models are still very easy to get and a readily available from the approved resellers list.

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      11 months ago

      Was running on my original pi b up till I replaced it recently with a pi 4. Was a little slow but worked fine.

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        11 months ago

        Same here, but I’ve also set up a Pi Zero W to run pihole/unbound at the inlaws place without any issue.