Looking for the best solution to block ads/trackers on my entire home network.
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Dont you need to set the dns adress to the pi-hole dns on every device?
It was a few years ago but I remember that I had to set my dns to the pi-hole, which acted as a dns server.
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As an extra step you can block DNS requests to external services from within your network to prevent devices trying to reach hardcoded for example Google DNS servers to bypass your filtering which isn't uncommon with some IoT/streaming devices. Best to both block the known IPs as well as have DNS redirects for the urls that point back to your firewall at whatever IP it's using to serve DNS from. There is a list called DoH servers by name or something like that which you can add to the blocklist to try and prevent usage of any DNS but your own.
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NextDNS or many other DoH services that are out there (I personally recommend Mullvad).
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I install some local adblocker to their devices and they don’t see those ads
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You can setup DHCP to give the DNS address to every device automatically. Even heavily locked down routers sometimes have the option, but I guess OP will have to try that out.
Pihole also has a built in DHCP, which you can enable and use as long as you disable the router one.
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Only Apple the filtering to your MAC addresses.
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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 use PfSense and it's great
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Do you have any lies to offer?
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Do you want a lie? 2+3 = 8
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Dunno, I found it pretty easy to set up different rules for different devices.
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that's terrible, shame on you
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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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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...
