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Pi-hole is such a great tool. I've been running it for a few years on a raspberry pi zero, and am constantly astonished by the sheer amount of cruft it blocks for me.

Congratulations to the team for the release - happy to support you via Patreon!

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I have had many times click an article link on reddit where everyone in the post comments complains about how the site is riddled with ads that it makes it unreadable and all I see is the article with a lot of whitespace.

IT department does not like that, but I had them install Firefox on the machines of my team, so we can install uBlock Origin. People are _amazed_ how the internet does look without ads.

Can’t you just use uBlock for this?

Pihole catches a lot of the trackers and crap coming out of my android tv. On my pc I see it as an extra line of defense after ublock.

Hulu stopped working properly on my Shield after using Pi-Hole, so I guess it was working?

Yeah, even the paid (non-ad) hulu has trouble if you block its telemetry servers.

On the pihole subreddit there's a wiki with lists of domains you can whitelist for certain services. I had to whitelist something for xbox live to work.

You can't use uBlock everywhere, .e.g phones, tablets, TVs.

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