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Then install log2ram to avoid constant writes to SD card. Or install DietPi instead of the stock OS, its installed automatically. Honestly DietPi just rocks for SBCs in general, good text UI and utilities.

10 years is a pretty good run for an SD card.. was it an endurance SD? That’s what I’m running. Fried a non-endurance one in under a year, replaced it with an endurance and reduced log writing frequency with some config change and have been cruising for 3-4 years so far.

Go sata m.2 next if you can

That only stops browser activity? What about windows, discord, nvidia, ... ? :p
Those are all blocked on my pihole ( i run both pihole and ublock btw )

Works great when you have a device that can use it.

You can setup separate vlans, or even separate networks for allowing the ads if you need.

You can - my wife works with ads as well.

What I ended up doing - I set her laptop with a static IP and added TCP and UDP routes for port 53 (the one used for DNS queries) to 8.8.8.8 - no complaints since ;) I use a cheap Mikrotik router between my ISP one and the actual network (well, a NAS and a Unifi AP, the rest is wireless) so doing it was easy ;)

YouTube ads come from the same server as the content so you can’t isolate them with pihole

No because pi-hole does not block YT ads

uBlock Origin on Firefox still works great if you keep the filters up to date every once in a while c:

Personally I use Stevenblack's default one, in combination with a personal one that i've curated since 2019. Previously I used to use MVPS, however that list's included in the SB default.

Stuff that tends to slip through the cracks with a lot of the common lists includes things like admiral 🤬, user session recorders, and app monitoring platforms like sentryio (useful for development, but I didn't consent my activity being recorded). There's also Bauer Media Group garbage that I've resorted to creating firewall packet inspection rules for, because they're using a subdomain technique that's even worse than Admiral's autogenerated domains - at least with those you can use DNS analysis tools like dnsdumpster to uncover the rest of autogenerated domains in that batch

Privacy Badger, if you want to try to reduce your tracking data.

Privacy Possum, if you want to send bullshit tracking data to cost companies money.

I get around it by using an alternative search engine such as searxng.

It's happens sometimes but I must say, not very often. I could probably count on one hand how many times that have happened through my many years of using pihole.

I forget about mine until I need to log into it to allow/block something, then I run my updates if I remember to think about it.

So like once every few months at best. Usually 2x/yr. Still works fine.

The blocklist automatically updates as long as you’re using maintained sources. It’s pretty easy tbh.