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[cj]

- It blocks tracking / ads on devices where you can’t edit a hosts list (your phone)

- It works for your entire network (everyone in your household)

[mcv → cj]

> "It works for your entire network (everyone in your household)"

I guess whether this is the killer feature or makes it suck depends on whether you've got a lot of devices and family members in your household that you can now easily protect with a single solution, or you're a single person with a laptop that spends half the time (or more) outside your home.

It's fantastic for the first group, useless for the second.

[cj → mcv]

Also, you don't have to choose one or the other.

I use both.

Ad blockers and Pi Hole each have pros/cons, but using them together gives you the best of both worlds (with the only downside being the overhead of running an adblocking extension or overhead of managing/updating a hosts file block list)

[saagarjha → cj]

> It blocks tracking / ads on devices where you can’t edit a hosts list (your phone)

Right, but you can use adblockers on them.

> It works for your entire network (everyone in your household)

Fair, but as I mentioned it stops working the moment you step out, which I assume you do with your phone?

[Bootvis → saagarjha]

>> It blocks tracking / ads on devices where you can’t edit a hosts list (your phone)

> Right, but you can use adblockers on them.

The iPhone doesn't support ad blocking.

[saagarjha → Bootvis]

It very much does.

[Bootvis → saagarjha]

I didn't know this and I now see I can block ads on Safari on iOS which is great.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work for Firefox on iOS.

[cj → saagarjha]

Elaborate? I'm not aware of a way to block in-app ads, or ads served when using Chrome / Safari / Firefox on iOS without using a DNS based ad blocker.

[saagarjha → cj]

You can block ads in Safari or apps using SFSafariViewController by installing a content blocker. You can use a VPN-based blocker to perform DNS blocking on-device.

[miked85 → saagarjha]

Devices such as Amazon Fire, Apple TV, your television, DVR, etc, etc do not support installing ad blockers.

[saagarjha → miked85]

None of those really have a browser on them, though…

[cj → saagarjha]

Half the point of pihole is to block trackers (not just ads).

That means blocking Google Analytics, Crashlytics, and whatever other unnecessary analytics / reporting that apps on Apple TV, your smart TV, etc use.