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Pi-hole

Setup

Section titled Setup
  • Just follow these instructions. It’s dead simple. Then, point your router’s DNS at the machine running Pi-hole, and every device on your network will benefit.
    • They recommend not auto-updating Pi-hole (reference)
    • Note to self: I put my compose.yaml in /opt/stacks/pihole.

Post-setup

Section titled Post-setup
  • Bookmark the admin interface on phone and computer.
  • Go to the admin interface → settings → DNS → disable the rate limit by setting both values to 0 since it’ll be the router making the requests for everyone, and 1000 is too low.
  • Add s.youtube.com to the Domains allow-list (click Domains on the left bar) so that YouTube history saves correctly (reference). There’s a whole list of domains that you may want to allow-list here.