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I had the same problem with overzealous blocking. I had to disable temporarily about once per day, and my wife found it bothersome also (especially because she didn't know how to manually disable it). We turned it off last month and I've just been using Brave instead. Works great on my MBP (fan doesn't run nearly as much as with FF & Chrome), though of course our mobile devices aren't protected anymore.

If anyone has a good solution for the overprotectiveness of the Pi-Hole, I'd love to hear it!

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I have no idea about how Pi Hole internals work being myself happy with Ublock Origin and other browsers extensions, but anyway a database storing the danger level based on IP nature (plain malicious, NSFW, advertising, etc.) and associated risks into multiple fields could make things easier for the user who for example could want to surf gambling or porn sites while keeping the guard high against phishing, advertising etc. A series of switch would be more immediate to use than editing a long list.

You could just disable the pi-hole dns server in your routers DHCP server (so it will not be used by all network devices by default.)

Then, only on your own phone/laptop/etc, manually configure your pi-hole as the DNS server for the corresponding home Wifi network. So only the devices you manually configure will use the pi-hole.

Also, you can create a shortcut on your phones homescreen to disable pi-hole for x minutes by just a single click (without having to log in.) see: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-d...

Another idea might be to remove all blocklists in pi-hole, and only add this list: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Isn't the overprotectiveness of Pi-Hole in relation to the blocklists not Pi-Hole itself. I'd suggest findings different blocklists.

There is one particular website that is extremely popular, I can't remember what it is now but it has blocklists showing which are likely to cause false positives.

https://firebog.net/

Only add the ones with a checkmark.

You should use the whitelist options.

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