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You're probably going to want to whitelist a domain here and there relative to the default blacklist. And the pi-hole has a few blacklists that aren't enabled by default, since they are much more strict.

So pi-hole-as-a-service doesn't make too much sense.

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PiHole as a service will definitely happen and I would be willing to pay a monthly fee for it.

My setup has been running for over a year and it has completely transformed the Internet for me.

Pihole / VPN as service https://ba.net/adblockvpn

That site looks sketchy

Ok thats a good argument. But the few pihole-users i know do not have a single whitelisted domain and likely will never have one. Also I could still whitelist most domains by adding the ip to my etc/hosts

I'm a long time pi-hole user and follow the subreddit and discourse regularly. You'll find many a pi-hole user with whitelists. The following are pretty common.

* https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/commonly-whitelisted-domains...

* https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist

I have ~2.2M domains blocked. There's just no way that I wouldn't have false positives in that big of a list.

1 million here - nothing whitelisted or knowingly broken.

Unfortunately some of the more extreme blacklists can block legitimate error-reporting software among others that I commonly use for work. Same goes if you work in analytics you'll have to open up some just to access your dashboard.

I work in the cryptocurrency space and a several legit sites and APIs are blocked in more than one list.

most people would be happy with the default settings... and if everyone would be using it, websites would make sure that they work with pi-hole users

Cue corporations spamming takedown requests because "it deprives them of ad revenue".

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