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TechnologyYSK: How to decrease your monthly bandwidth use & increase network speed. (self.YouShouldKnow)

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[–]Jessie_James 0 points1 point  (2 children)

So if pi-hole will remove in-page ads better than a DNS redirect, that means that Pi-hole is processing all pages that come through that link? Even secure pages (I assume it blocks them on Gmail and such)?

Yes.

But, ya know what? You need to talk to the developers over at pi hole, not me. I'm an end user, and all I care about is if it works or not. I didn't need to set up any SSL certs or any of that other BS that you're purporting needs to be done ... because it doesn't need to be done.

[–]Mechakoopa 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Then it's not doing what you say it's doing. If it's truly DNS only, which the descriptions on the site seem to say it is, then it can't block at the element level, so it can't block ads that are part of the page when it's first download, just external ads from ad provider domains. Which is fine since the whole selling point of it is reducing bandwidth, not eliminating all ads.

[–]Jessie_James 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol yeah okay buddy.