Man I really need to set up a pi hole. Thanks for the reminder.
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After 3 years of use, mine died about an hour before we were due to go on holiday.
I was using the ISPs DNS until I switched to CloudFlare, then saw somebody mention NextDNS, it's cool, but there's nothing like running your own services.
I might get another pi-hole up and running some time.
Umbrel has the app, but I think it's better to use a dedicated device.
I'm always looking for a new project with raspberry pi's. Currently trying to build a semi-smart phone with a 2G wavshare modem and some code which was stolen from this project: https://github.com/evanman83/OURS-project
Kinda stuck though as while I can text and call - I can't make the audio work in either direction.
Might be time to give up, and work on setting up a pi-hole at the router. Would love to remove those ads network wide!
From experience, Brave browser is far more successful at removing ads then Pi-hole was.
Most companies, like YouTube or Facebook don't have separate servers to serve their ads and so Pi-hole's DNS approach is not very effective.
Pi-hole did work well on less popular sites that outsource their ads to external companies tho.