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The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software.

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How practical is it to block everything by default? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 month ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/pihole@sh.itjust.works

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I've just set up my pihole and I'm considering the best way to configure it. Is it a good idea to set the default group to block (almost) all domains and then manually add trusted devices to another group with a "normal" block list? My use case is untrustworthy devices that I don't want phoning home but which might change their IP address.

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[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

If you want to go through logs and meticulously look for which broke what. There are a lot of things that happen in the background when you visit a webpage(cdn.example.com, cf.example.com...) and *.example.com white-list is pretty stupid(ads.example.com)