Hey #pihole people. Anyone see stuff like this? Any #homelab folks got ideas how to troubleshoot?

Every once in a while, I get so many DNS requests that my pi-hole (which isn't a pi, it's running in a container on a beefy NAS machine) gets overwhelmed. If you look at the attached graphics, the top 5-6 things are all #iOS devices. An #ipad, a few #iphones. The system labeled "hub" is the pi-hole server itself, and one of the nodes is my macOS 14.7.2 work laptop.

When this happens, as far as everyone on the home network is concerned, "The internet is down." Because #DNS resolution is failing. My limit of simultaneous requests is 150/s. This storm is creating 25000! (That's the highest peak I've ever seen). But the smaller peaks at 5000 are enough to overwhelm the system.

The pihole-FTL.db is 3Gb. That's big. Any experts out there have ideas on how to troubleshoot and fix the problem?
#selfhosting #selfhost #adblock #adblocker

#TimesSquare with #adblock enabled

oh wow while on holiday my #unifi dream machine now shows me active home hubs and #netflows apparently?! get a load of the flow view and laugh in #adblock (debut is a NAS with my resolver for the IOW house):

AdAway - блокувальник реклами з відкритим вихідним кодом для Android. Підтримує пристрої з root правами та без них.

I have finally joined the cool kids and have a fully functional #PiHole running on my network. It just took me having to dig out an old router in order to complete the task. #adblock #linux #privacy

i don't normally do politics like this but i just want to remind the #fediverse that #bigtech executives have been cozying up to trump during the campaign because they want to put #ai into the us military.

the govt has repeatedly expressed concerns about #privacy issues involving #copilot going so far to ban it from use in congress.

all the more reason to cut out #socialmedia and use #adblock

for me personally, #privacy and responsible #tech was on the ballot. and we lost.

Ma qualcunə, dopo l'ultimo aggiornamento di sistema #Ubuntu #Linux, sta avendo problemi con #YouTube? Indipendentemente da browser e da #adBlock .

I did not know that uBlock origin existed for Thunderbird. It's logical since mails are received in html format.

Naturally I installed the extension

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/ublock-origin/

#OpenSource #POSIX #programming #AdBlock#LINUX #WIN64

#Firefox keep doing weird things lately. Every week there's a new controversy. It should not be trusted anymore.

As I wrote before, it's #Chromium that needs to be completely forked and be used by distros by default (not just soft-forked, as it exists now). It's a faster browser that uses less RAM than Firefox.

I plugged in my new "Smart" TV.. 5 minutes later I installed @adguard within my network to block the insanely intrusive, and privacy abusing ads and "Smart" features.

Thanks for the motivation LG!

"...the German publishing giant Axel Springer...is suing Eyeo, makers of Adblock Plus, on the grounds that changing HTML to block an ad creates a 'derivative work' of Axel Springer's web-pages:
[...]
"'IP' ('a law that lets me control how you use your own property') is a tempting solution to every problem, but ultimately, IP ends up magnifying the power of the already powerful..."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/#hard-cases-make-bad-copyright-law

In its fight again ad blockers, YouTube is testing server-side ad injection, integrating ads directly into video streams. This could disrupt ad blockers like uBlock Origin and @sponsorblock, and third-party apps, pushing users towards YouTube Premium.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/6/youtube-is-testing-server-side-ad-injection-to-counteract-ad-blockers/

Google plan to limit ad-blockers kicks off next week.

If only there were a way we could fire Chrome so we could out-fox Google's plan

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/

Nothing warms my heart more than another website picking up the idea "Detect Missing Ad-blocker" of https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/ (after seeing it on mine in action).

#adblock

It's made for WordPress but the idea is so dead simple that it can be integrated in almost anything with some work (if nobody else did that work already :D)

Edith says: This is blowing up. I have no Soundcloud (:P) but @stefan has a Support My Work page at https://stefanbohacek.com/support-my-work/ suggesting organizations to donate to

Times Square with adblock
enabled

Did not know that uBlock has a "disable large media" option.

When enabled it tries to block any media larger than a specified size (until you click on said media)

Less data to load means a faster and cheaper internet

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-large-media-elements