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Its worth mentioning ublock origin these days, as a competitor to add block pro. I hope you guys appreciate that absolutely nothing is blocked on this site though. No trackers, no adds, no google, no monitoring, nothing - just a plain fast web site.

Iv noticed that. The speed of loading pages is unreal, I forget if Iv clicked refresh as it loads almost instantly!

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I also setup one of these last week, seems to be working well. I used the older Raspberry Pi B model. Also setting router DNS to the Raspberry Pi ip address is a good option. Makes it easier than setting DNS on each device.

Here is a helpful you tube guide for anyone interested, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytlAN18X5d0

[vlad01]

can you setup the Pi to be a complete router?

[immortality Profile]

It can indeed. Pi-hole does come with a full DHCP server.

[vlad01]

yeah that would be handy. I don't even need a authentication or PPPoE, just auto detect for connecting the WAN from the NTD. So for me I only need routing and DHCP for the LAN side as well as port forwarding for game servers I occasionally run.

My router plays up sometimes needing a reboot and usually does a 2-3 times consecutively, the internet sometimes halts but there is no issues on the surface. A reboot or few fixes the problem.

[L67PSI Profile]

Updating Pi-Hole.

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-update-pi-hole/249

Details from above link. SSH into Pi-Hole, Run command pihole -up
Job done.

[psyolent]

....it just doesn't get any easier huh.

[L67PSI Profile]

For anyone interested in blocking porn using the Pi-Hole, this may be useful.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/16905/add-porn-blocking-to-your-pi-hole

[immortality Profile]

Block porn?

[vlad01]

But why?