[ehsankia]

For people using network level ad blocking, do you ever run into annoyances where there's a site you want to access and just can't? Mostly links that route through an analytics network. First time you click on a twitter link for example, or some referrer store links. And once you're stuck, there's normally nothing you can do. At least on the browser I can temporary turn off an extension, but I've found that network level blockers get in the way sometimes.

[shmoogy]

This is why I don't run pihole or NextDNS at the network level anymore, my wife had too many annoyances with slick deals and other things. Whitelists covered most but not everything.

[ignoramous]

> my wife had too many annoyances with slick deals and other things.

Running the browser remotely is one way. I usually abuse archive.is or brow.sh or startpage's anonymous browsing to that affect. Cloudflare bought a startup in the space...let's see what they come up with for the consumers: https://techstartups.com/2020/01/07/cloudflare-buys-remote-b...

May be, NextDNS and others through their in-browser plugin can optionally follow the redirects (remotely) to find if the eventual destination is not blacklisted (but that's too much of an ask since following HTTP redirects is different from DNS CNAMEs).

[poitrus]

NextDNS will soon have a solution to auto-follow tracking links and allow some blocked domains temporarily from the blockpage. Just make sure you install the root CA on all devices.

[zzyzxd]

pihole has an API to disable adblocking, which is just an HTTP request so it's pretty easy to trigger. For example, on iOS, write a shortcut so that you can "Hey Siri, disable pihole".

[shmoogy]

I gave her a shortcut that disabled Pihole via ssh but it was still annoying for her. I don't mind just running it on my devices. I pay for YouTube premium and other things already anyway.

[0xEFF]

When family members complain, I just configure their device to use 1.1.1.1 for DNS with a static DHCP reservation.

[fluential]

Same here + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/google-search...

[i2shar]

There's an android app I use, called FlutterHole that gives you a one click way to temporarily disable the PiHole block. Under the covers it's using an API call.

[heavyset_go]

AdGuard Home allows you to whitelist domains, and provides an interface to unblock blocked DNS queries directly from the logs.

[closeparen]

If you run fancy enough network gear, you can run several SSIDs on different vlans and route them separately.