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> It's probably not that efficient anyway to be using pihole's filtering in Firefox compared with just ublock origin anyway.

Pihole operates at the network level. It can block Windows Telemetry, ads on your Roku, smart devices trying to phone home, etc. Any guest devices that connect to your network also benefit without you having to install blockers on them.

It's not a replacement for ublock, it's used in conjunction with it.



Yea, I understand that which is why I keep pihole.

My argument though is in the context of Firefox, in which case the benefit of the pihole bit is dubious when you can install ublock origins. Pihole doesn't provide much additional benefits that can't be achieved with ublock origin advanced filters.

Granted someone could argue what would be the benefit of using the dnscrypt-proxy at that point. In that context, you benefit from better privacy (DNS requests aggregated) and caching benefits.


Your Pi-hole working on other people's devices is a bad thing. After all, there's nothing stopping you from configuring your Pi-hole to filter political content you disagree with instead of just ads, trackers, and malware.


> Your Pi-hole working on other people's devices is a bad thing.

No, it isn't. Never mind the fact that that isn't how PiHole works, I'm perfectly within my right to control how my home network functions.




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