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by Mister_Snuggles 2826 days ago
I found the same thing with emails sent from an airline. It was frustrating because I did actually want to follow the links in the emails as they were to do with a flight I was taking.
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You can whitelist domains, you can add to the blacklist or you can temporarily disable pihole (5-10min whatever) while you do something.
Yup, I temporarily disabled it and life was good.

But I can understand how this would frustrate people, especially when they don't know how to disable it or aren't given the password.

What about WS2811s with a pushbutton to temporarily disable, or a pushbutton on one of the GPIO pins, with the switch in a central location?
The included dashboard with the pi-hole is incredibly easy to use, so I just have it bookmarked on all our browsers in case someone in my family needs to pause it or whitelist/blacklist a site. We barely ever have to touch it though, mostly just to update the blocklists occasionally.
I was thinking use-cases for house guests or very non-technical folks (what is a bookmark?).
Arcade button[0] mounted on the RPi that initiates the 5 minute pause script?

[0]https://www.adafruit.com/product/1185

Guest wifi network which doesn’t go through the pi?
Yes you can. But having non-technical people verbalize the need to whitelist a domain is incredibly painful.