I have this conversation with my wife. I installed a pi-hole on our network, works nearly perfectly, however every site thinks we have ad-blockers installed, and kind of we do I guess.
She got mad because all the sites she wants to read (she love celebrity drama) won’t let her read any more, so she just uses cellular data instead of the home wi-fi. I don’t know how she reads anything with all the ads everywhere.
Your wife is the mentality that ensures we can’t have nice things. Too many people are willing to be abused, exploited and manipulated just to get their cookie.
One day I installed AdGuard on a Pi and routed my parent’s traffic through it, effectively blocking ads. I thought they would love to live without ads but she asked me to remove it because the games she plays won’t progress unless she watches ads.
I have a pi hole and my wife likes the Google shopping links that it blocks and my sister in law likes to play games with ads. I ended up just making a bypass list and putting their devices on them.
Heh, my dad wanted to use sites where he needed to have ad blocking disabled. I set his device up in adguard home to be ignored by all of the global blocking rules
I started with pihole and eventually switch to AdGuard home. Sucks for apps that “requires” an occasional ad, but 1 thing I still can’t figure out is why Hulu won’t work anymore.
But I feel you on the benefits and why I won’t give one to my parents. These are people who took 2 months to realize my dad isn’t on the family text group because he accidentally “left” the group, and why my mom’s iPhone stopped ringing because she consciously used the physical mute switch on the side (buried beneath the phone case).
I have this conversation with my wife. I installed a pi-hole on our network, works nearly perfectly, however every site thinks we have ad-blockers installed, and kind of we do I guess.
She got mad because all the sites she wants to read (she love celebrity drama) won’t let her read any more, so she just uses cellular data instead of the home wi-fi. I don’t know how she reads anything with all the ads everywhere.
Your wife is the mentality that ensures we can’t have nice things. Too many people are willing to be abused, exploited and manipulated just to get their cookie.
One day I installed AdGuard on a Pi and routed my parent’s traffic through it, effectively blocking ads. I thought they would love to live without ads but she asked me to remove it because the games she plays won’t progress unless she watches ads.
these people addicted to those freenium ad games.
I have a pi hole and my wife likes the Google shopping links that it blocks and my sister in law likes to play games with ads. I ended up just making a bypass list and putting their devices on them.
Same for me. I have a group called
noblockon my pihole. If someone complains, I go and add their device to it. I have given up arguing with people…You know, if the people who go out of their way for ads make it so the people who won’t don’t make such a huge target, I’ll take it.
Sounds like I will be working on next
oh god, same here. I have Pi-Hole set up with a two layer system so it blocks less for my partner’s phone and laptop and more for everything else.
Couldn’t you just change her phone’s DNS settings to circumvent the adblocker? Then she could still use the WiFi.
Lets call it a combination of “not tech savvy enough” and “it did what I needed and she had a bypass, and I put 0 thought into it after”
Heh, my dad wanted to use sites where he needed to have ad blocking disabled. I set his device up in adguard home to be ignored by all of the global blocking rules
I started with pihole and eventually switch to AdGuard home. Sucks for apps that “requires” an occasional ad, but 1 thing I still can’t figure out is why Hulu won’t work anymore.
But I feel you on the benefits and why I won’t give one to my parents. These are people who took 2 months to realize my dad isn’t on the family text group because he accidentally “left” the group, and why my mom’s iPhone stopped ringing because she consciously used the physical mute switch on the side (buried beneath the phone case).