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Hopefully, this doesn't cause fear mongering around raspberry pi devices. It's not a stretch to imagine a bureaucrat reading articles like this, seeing "a raspberry pi was plugged in", and forming a negative opinion of the device and people that use them.

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Unfortunately there already is. When I interviewed for a job in Antarctica we had discussed methods of saving on bandwidth usage and I suggested the use of a PiHole to strip out ads to save precious KB and was told that the Raspberry Pi was frowned upon due to previous issues, and it would likely never happen. :(

Then just use a server that does the same thing. If the issue is the buzzword then work around the buzzword.

Oh of course, software is software, I just mean when a Raspberry Pi was mentioned that it has a distinct stigma.

Yes. Small ARM-powered server. Preferably not expensive, around $35.

Good news then: you don’t need an actual Raspberry Pi or to run “pihole” software in order to filter ads via DNS. Just a beige Linux box running dnsmasq is enough!

I mean, it's just a DNS server right? There are probably watches that could run it.

Right, the software does the job not the hardware. I was just trying to point out that the Raspberry Pi was blankedly verboten.

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