I want to block ads and trackers on the whole home network. I’ve been using adblockers and trackers for years now; I currently have a Raspberry Pi. I was thinking of setting up Pi-Hole with AdGuard. Any other suggestions are welcome. (I can’t use a custom router, because my ISP doesn’t allow it)

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    Pi-hole works great for me, but everyone else on the network that uses Google hates it because the entire first page is ads and they can’t click on them.

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      Yeah, PiHole is great if you live by yourself otherwise the entire household will have it out for you.

      Learned that lesson the hard way.

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          15 hours ago

          Yes! PiHole does offer whitelisting profiles for devices however, Apple/IOS devices with their “Private Wi-Fi addresses” make it pain given how the Mac Addresses regularly rotate.

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            10 hours ago

            Oh wow - did not know that!

            Bit of a weird choice, given that routers usually allow limiting connections to specific MAC addresses as a security feature. Everything’s a trade-off, I guess…

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      For a mobile device / TV, sure.

      For a browser on a computer, uBlock or AdNauseum will fix that.

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      I have one SSID with pihole (which I use), and one without. Works pretty well, if you’re ok with a VLAN-aware network.