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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)
chez_jay-
What is the second server? Not another pi-hole?
No, I'd be using Google 8.8.8.8 or something in case the pi-hole goes down.
Yes. But (at least if you are using one pi-hole, not two), it's pretty trivial to turn ad-blocking on and off.
Yeah, I realised this whilst I was mucking about with it yesterday. It's a bit inconvenient though to have to login and disable. Guess I'd rather do that than have ads everywhere!
frankenbike
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.