Does a pihole setup not slow down your connectivity? Been looking into it but I'm very much a novice with my raspberry pi. I do want to use it for something cool other than just sitting around.
And my question is only deepened by the fact that I have a synology box as well. I could use pihole on that instead of my raspberry pi, right?
Easily, I went from through several gen of pi and now run it on docker on my Synology.
As mentioned, it's just a DNS server (at its core) and can actually make things faster as you will no longer download ads.
There are some getting used to things. Some url shorteners (constant contact) don't work and sponsored Google search results won't work. But the QOL is worth it.
a tor exit node :P /s
Let me throw in Paperless NGX, https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
Not exactly a "life changing experience", but using blocky instead of pihole or adguard. It's basically "the same thing" but with way more customization features -- and the "cherry on top" of setting it as user nobody instead of root or your current one.
So how does an average joe use your link and set that up? I have no clue.
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