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Does anyone run pihole on their raspberry pi?

Does it work fine or what's your experience?

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    @Trablarer is your loading speed of websites still good?
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    I use pivpn, easiest vpn setup I've ever had
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    It works fine. But some adv are not blocked, like the Amazon 's on YouTube. Any ideas?
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    @Condor It is a DNS server with a blicklist feature that allows you to easily block any ads or shadware websites network wide.

    @404response The loading speed of websites should normally increase with Pihole because of two reasons:
    First the DNS query is much faster in the local network when the Pihole has cached the domain.
    Second all the additional traffic of the ads doesn't have to be loaded, which is much faster. (Because internally Pihole doesn't give an empty DNS-response or a timeout for blocked sites but redirects them to its own address and responses with a 404, which happens in the local network in no time).
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    @Condor AdAway only works for the machine it is installed on. PiHole, as a DNS server, can block ads for the hole network if you set it as your main DNS server (best done at the DCHP), so it even blocks ads in apps on your mobile phone.
    I use PiHole on a Raspberry Pi, since it is the DCHP, too, no more configuration (except for disabling the DHCP on the router) was needed. Via the VPN network the Pi is connected to and configured as the main DNS server for the VPN, it even works on my mobile phone if I am on the way. So, yes, VPN works perfectly fine with PiHole.
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    @Benedikt do you vhave a vpn service running on the same pi? If so, what are you using?
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    @Wack I am using OpenVPN. It is very flexible, configurable and works great on nearly every device.
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