[evanreichard]

I can empathize with the sometimes aggressive blocking, and as you pointed out can be pretty block list dependent.

I generally will go in and whitelist things if a site breaks due to a DNS block, but of course putting your partner on the same VLAN can be problematic. I "got around" that by having a button in Home Assistant that will completely turn off Pi-hole (and now AdGuard). So my partner will go in and toggle that if there's a problem.

AdGuard Home does also have the ability to completely disable blocking for specific clients.

[nkrisc]

I had similar issues and the problem with a white list is it can be very difficult to figure exactly which cryptic subdomain of some major company is necessary for the service to work, without just allowing everything and defeating the purpose .

[evanreichard]

Yeah - I usually watch the network tab in debugging tools to figure out whats being blocked, then whitelist and try again.

I also realize that you shouldn't expect most people to do that, let alone know how to.

I am someone who is very aggressively anti-ad.

[nkrisc]

Sure, if you’re accessing it in your web browser. But when it’s an app on someone else’s phone that’s misbehaving, that’s where I throw in the towel. It’s not worth the effort at that point.