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I’m a subscriber, and like a print newspaper I’m fine with ads. Yet the online version of NYT was a large inspiration for propping a PiHole. Why? Because unlike print, the ads are blinky and distracting. And because ad blockers don’t help in the NYT iOS app. So now I, a high-income subscriber, don’t see your ads anymore, NYT. You pushed me too far, NYT, and the only one that suffers is you, because my experience just improved.

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Adguard works, too. I’ve been using it a while but eventually would like to try a PiHole. Do you find yourself having to adjust the settings often, or does it work fairly well?

It’s pretty much fire-and-forget. Set your lists (or take the defaults), point your router DNS to the Pi-Hole, sorted. That’s the simple version. You’re on HN, you’ll want to fiddle, but if just loaded it with default lists and never updated it, it would still probably serve well for some years.

Once in a great while I’ll disable it for five minutes to look at something (Facebook or the like). But that a few button clicks.

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