<story><title>I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-08/i-tried-hiding-from-silicon-valley-in-a-pile-of-privacy-gadgets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>How does this differ from the traditional hosts file that blocks requests to blacklisted hosts?</text></item><item><author>duncan-donuts</author><text>It’s on a raspberry pi that is connected to your LAN. It is dns for the LAN and blocks any requests to hosts that are blacklisted</text></item><item><author>jammygit</author><text>After a brief skim of that README, I&amp;#x27;m not 100% certain how Pi-hole works. Basically, it is a DNS server whose job is to lose requests to trackers, sort of  like modifying the hosts file to fail to connect to facebook owned domains? And you use it by telling your router to use it as its DNS server, controlling it via a webpage it hosts on your private network?</text></item><item><author>oscilloscope</author><text>Since this was about devices and ad-blocking, I expected the Pi-hole to make an appearance. But alas, the author used Brave browser.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;pi-hole&amp;#x2F;pi-hole&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;README.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;pi-hole&amp;#x2F;pi-hole&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;README.md&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brewdad</author><text>My understanding is that it accomplishes the same thing but for every device on your network rather than having to manage host files on each device. It also works for those where editing the host file isn&amp;#x27;t possible.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-08/i-tried-hiding-from-silicon-valley-in-a-pile-of-privacy-gadgets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>How does this differ from the traditional hosts file that blocks requests to blacklisted hosts?</text></item><item><author>duncan-donuts</author><text>It’s on a raspberry pi that is connected to your LAN. It is dns for the LAN and blocks any requests to hosts that are blacklisted</text></item><item><author>jammygit</author><text>After a brief skim of that README, I&amp;#x27;m not 100% certain how Pi-hole works. Basically, it is a DNS server whose job is to lose requests to trackers, sort of  like modifying the hosts file to fail to connect to facebook owned domains? And you use it by telling your router to use it as its DNS server, controlling it via a webpage it hosts on your private network?</text></item><item><author>oscilloscope</author><text>Since this was about devices and ad-blocking, I expected the Pi-hole to make an appearance. But alas, the author used Brave browser.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;pi-hole&amp;#x2F;pi-hole&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;README.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;pi-hole&amp;#x2F;pi-hole&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;README.md&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skrying</author><text>Not much, except it&amp;#x27;s on another machine and is a central point of config. Can even be used to hand out DHCP</text></comment>