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My Raspberry Pi SD card finally died after almost 10 years, and I was hosting Pi-Hole on it. After a year of Pi-Hole I didn’t realize how many things had freaken ads. They pop up everywhere! I really need to get a new SD card :(

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.

Is dietPi the same as PiOS lite? I use PiOS lite with no GUI etc

Probably not, think of it as a different distro. It is Debian based, and supports many different SBCs and not just the RPi. https://dietpi.com/

Yes! I kept going through SD cards and DietPi was suggested… It’s been rocking for years now.

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.

Endurance cards are so worth it. They’re what I use in my Pi units and our dash cams. I just whish I hadn’t fried so many normal cards before coming around.

Well I should clarify. I had retroPi on it for a number of years, but hardly used it. I finally repurposed it over the last year for Pi-Hole and Pi.Alert, so yeah I think this last year completely destroyed my SD card

Go sata m.2 next if you can

That is an absolutely great idea!

Wow! 10 years is a long time for an SD!

Backups are so easy on Raspbian that every couple of years I swap out the SD cards from the old set to a new one, and just keep the old ones around in case one of the new ones decide to croak out.

Its an old meme sir, but it checks out

When I want an ad gone, I reach for brand name soda. Brand name soda, it means you’re smart.

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 )

I guess I just don’t trust Windows discord and Nvidia. I don’t think DNS filtering will protect you if they control the computer

Or android, ios, consoles, … :p
These are all devices pihole can help with that ublock cant. A combination of the 2 is key

I’m genuinely curious, to what are you referring when mentioning Windows, Discord, Nvidia, etc.? I know Windows is an entirely separate conversation but do Discord and Nvidia serve ads now and I’m just not seeing it because of my Pihole?

sometimes its just blocking telemetry.

although windows and discord are serving ads now.

I use a piHole to block all my IoT devices from sending telemetry data. Roku devices especially, but it’s amazing how many IoT devices try to ping out.

Or both, both is good.

You don’t need uBlock if you have a pihole properly configured, but you still need a pihole even if you have uBlock properly configured. uBlock is a half measure. An incomplete solution, but better than nothing.

uBlock can do much more refined and targeted blocking than a pihole because it has access to the entire page that is being served and can selectively filter elements. The pihole only has access to the DNS name, and DNS blocking is a rather crude tool to block ads that can be defeated by serving the ads from the same domain.

For example: a pihole doesn’t work for blocking YouTube ads, because they come from the same domain.

I migrated to Pi-hole in 2016 so believe me when I say that uBlock Origin is perfectly complimentary because it removes the blank space that is made for ads.

Ublock will work if you don’t go and install a bunch of proprietary apps. Also it has the ability to block elements on the DOM so its more effective for web pages.

Assuming everyone will have pihole “configured correctly”, not mentioning how to do that, saying you don’t need ublock if you have a pi hole (it does more than black ads). All in all a terrible comment.

Pihole alone does not block YouTube ads for me.

Edit: And uBlock alone does not block ads within mobile apps.

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

So all PCs, Macs, tablets, and smartphones then.

Most mobile browsers can’t. Every Chromium browser is soon getting the gimped Lite version too.

So it’s just Firefox on not iOS.

Ads don’t only come through browsers.

Not if it is my ad, Golden Globe nominated movie, Barbie, is now available on Blu-ray and select streaming services.

Nowhere is safe. No where.

“…I use arch btw.”

Well played. And now I also have that theme song stuck in my head too 🎵

I use Arch btw

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