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Another reason for pi-hole! The spot where my tv shows ads is just an empty box. Very satisfying.
How often do you find you need to mess with it? I've wanted to dabble but I'm super wary of introducing yet one more thing I need to tinker with to keep happy (especially if it's gonna block the whole house's internet if it breaks).
I have a pi.hole and the only time I literally ever touch the interface is if my wife thinks something is broken because of it. Usually it’s not the problem. I literally never touch it otherwise.
Sweet, thanks.
I almost never have to mess with it once I got it running. Very occasionally I have to turn off blocking for a minute to access a website that is being served by an ad server, but this is easy. There is a web interface that you can use on your phone web browser with an option to pause blocking for 30 seconds or 5 minutes.
It has never broken or had a bad update or something and blocked my whole Internet. Good reliable set up and forget software. Been running it for years.
Great to hear, thanks!