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We're running pi-hole network wide and we just planned a trip with no glitches. The only annoyance (if it's really an annoyance) is clicking on a link in a google search and it's blocked. Go back to Google, realize is was an ad, scroll down a little further and click the real link. No big deal. Nobody in the house is complaining about not reaching sites.

So, yes, it is possible to do this in real world scenarios.

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This is my experience as well. I very rarely find sites that don't work because of pi-hole, other than their advertising links.

I can't actually think of a case where I've had to disable pi-hole because a site seemed to have broken functionality. I book flights on Expedia et al all the time.

Every once in a while I want to do competitive shopping, and disable pi-hole for an hour. It's a revelation now much crud shows up (and pops up) when I do.

You made me giggle :-D

worried about resolving ad/tracking urls, yet ordering things via Expedia

If you don’t understand the irony here I’ll giggle even more

Not the person you were replying to, but that was unnecessarily mean. Instead of just poking fun at someone else's ignorance, perhaps you can enlighten them?

Ah, just let him giggle.

Parties like Expedia do more tracking and analytics of what you look at, when you look at and how you look at offers on their site then most of the urls on the pi hole url lists, which are typically referral counting urls (many also just for adult sites), or just for counting traffic. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they sell this data too. Not saying they are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they do.

Also since when is giggling mean? The assumption that I intended to be mean, is kind of mean too. This is about the same as somebody saying not to eat sugar yet eating lots of fruit that contain sugars, if somebody says that to you surely you giggle without being mean.

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