Pi-hole VS unifios-utilities

https://pi-hole.net/

Easier than you might think to set up. Set and forget. Do it for your family and friends maybe. Sell routers pre-configured maybe.

Not /the/ answer. Just one not-nothing step.

A Pi-hole instance to my network's DNS and block all ads in all devices at home

PiFi includes network-wide ad and tracker blocking (alongside Wireguard/OpenVPN client support and NAS features)

From my experience, pihole is very easy to setup for this use case: https://pi-hole.net/

> Home routers can simply assign pi into e.g. pi.home when doing dhcp. Then you can "ping pi" on all systems. It fixes everything- for that reason alone these reserved TLDs are, imo, useful. Unfortunately I've never seen a router do this, but here's hoping.

dnsmasq has this feature. I think it’s commonly available in alternative router firmware.

On my home network, I set up https://pi-hole.net/ for ad blocking, and it uses dnsmasq too. So as my network’s DHCP + DNS server, it automatically adds dns entries for dhcp leases that it hands out.

There are undoubtably other options, but these are the two I’ve worked with.

Thinkpad 431s if you are on a low budget. It's the best performing cheap option, IMO.

Obviously block access to internet nonsense. I just started using ControlD.com and it works like a charm. Or, if you have the time, make the PiHole and your Home Lab & Network Lab a project that you two build together.

Make the command line kid friendly, like using bat instead of cat and LSD instead of ls and so on. Colors are stimulating and fun. Something like the hyper terminal is another idea.

I would appreciate someone building a faster alternative to the hyper terminal in C or Rust.

And then there's Nand to Tetris, which you should pick up together as well.

[0] https://controld.com/

[1] https://pi-hole.net/

[2] https://www.nand2tetris.org/

ublock origin will help.

but does your org do any kind of DNS filtering? depending on your setup (office or remote, etc) setting up something like Pi-hole[0] can offer a tremendous amount of time & hassle-saving as so many of the problematic ads will just not get to your folks.

a more managed equivalent of Pi-Hole might be AdGuard DNS[1].

[0] https://pi-hole.net

[1] https://adguard-dns.io

Si te preguntas, ¿por qué no usar Adguard o Pihole? 🤔

I just purchased the unifi express and I have been researching its capabilities and more specifically ad blocking functionality. I have found that people are complaining about the ad blocking abilities not being very granular and referring to unifios-utilities and running something like pi hole or adguard as an alternative. Can I safely assume that these options will be available to the unifi express?

https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities <- this cannot be more simple to digest. Stop spreading FUD (and learn to code if you still don't understand how Github works and what is linked)

Install on boot script: https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities/tree/main/on-boot-script

(https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities)

Not natively but they run dnsmasq so you can use unifios-utilities with an on-boot-script to modify dnsmasq’s config and add whatever records you need, including wildcard