So, check this little idea that I have - I want to browse the internet without all sorts of unscrupulous actors collecting every little bit of metadata on me and my family they can possibly get their hands on.
  • chaospatterns@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    6 hours ago

    And what do you set that secondary DNS entry to? Operating systems may use both, so you need the secondary to point to a pi hole or else you’re letting ads through randomly.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      21·
      2 hours ago

      Randomly? No, only when your pi goes down. Or when ever you’re looking at something that gets around the simple DNS based ad filtering pinhole does. It’s foolish to spend twice as much money for this level of fail over protection to prevent ads. It’s not like if you see an ad you’re going to die lol. If you’re that opposed to them, sure, go for it, but you’re better off spending your time doing other things to stop ads than maintaining two pi holes because one might fail.

      And like the other person said, just use ad guard’s public DNS. I use it on my router and on my phone.

      • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        60 minutes ago

        Randomly? No, only when your pi goes down

        Not how secondary DNS works. It round robins the requests across primary and secondary DNS servers.