Also wanted to mention Tails, but there was no space left for it :p

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    Pi-Hole is a really thing but I don’t think my tech skills are quite up to scratch. Plus I think the wife would get ratty if it stopped working while I was out.

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      You can set one up your network and just point your DNS request at it on a device-by-device basis. So your wife would only use it if she wanted to.

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      If you run it bare metal (not in a dockercontainers for example) it’s quite easy to set it up on a raspberry pi or other hardware. The wife would even know it’s existence if you don’t tell her and use a standard config in the blocklists …give it a try …you’re gonna love it

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        Ad links from emails won’t work anymore. And the “top results” in Google won’t work.

        The wife would complain.

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          Yup, the ad results in Google had to be whitelisted to increase the SO-acceptance-factor. But once that’s done it’s really not much of a hassle at all, but whitelisting is easy if you just check the recently blocked domains.

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            I eventually installed ad guard to remove the Google ad results (different browser plugins would work too). And indeed white listed some of the favorite shop links.

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              That only works when you’re willing/allowed/able to configure each users private device. I probably could, but I’d prefer not to.

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          Hahaha really?! My wife didn’t even noticed something different other than WhatsApp media files not loading (fixed whitelisting some wtt domain)… Too bad

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      Pi-hole is pretty robust and not super hard to set up. You can run pi-hole on relatively cheap hardware, such as a Raspberry Pi 3B. I’m a big fan of Libre Computing’s “le-potato” board for running pi-hole; it’s a cheap raspberry pi clone. You’ll need some basic Linux skills but if you can follow step by step directions you’ll be fine. If you use a raspberry pi or similar hardware you’ll also need a micro SD card reader during the set up process.