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If I use a second server ads still get through.
What is the second DNS server? Not another pi-hole?
Also it breaks referral links (i.e. Google shopping which I use a lot). I used a whitelist off the internet but still no. I'm guessing that whitelisting googleadservices.com will result in trillions of ads again
Yes. But (at least if you are using one pi-hole, not two), it's pretty trivial to turn ad-blocking on and off.
(I only use mine for DNS + DHCP, not adblocking)
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You need to enable SSH on the pi, I can't remember how but a quick google will tell you.
What % traffic is being blocked?
I like that it blocks the tracking, if I find a product I just go direct to the website - means you can shop without google knowing what you're into - which is the whole point of the pi-hole. You can rapidly whitelist sites in the pi-hole admin site, just view the recent query list and click something like Allow.
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Got pi-hole to work. More hassle (no SSH on boot, fighting my router to give me a static IP, pi-hole not starting on boot) than I expected and less effective than I expected.
I'm also a little worried about using the pihole as the only DNS lookup thing. If the pihole goes down we have no internet (unless we reset the DNS servers on the router - easy enough but needs a set of instructions for my flatmate). If I use a second server ads still get through.
Also it breaks referral links (i.e. Google shopping which I use a lot). I used a whitelist off the internet but still no. I'm guessing that whitelisting
googleadservices.comwill result in trillions of ads again.