I am actively using PiHole in my home network with over 8 devices doing around ~30k requests per day. Some highlights:
* By a huge margin the nosiest device is my Android Phone. >40% traffic is coming from just my phone (which is crazy!)
* I have 650,000+ in my domain blacklist and folks complaining about "it doesnt work on pihole" just have taken that tiny bit of error to unblock some domains like "ssl.googleanalytics.com" which break a lot apps. It took me about 1 day to see what isnt working (ex Facebook app break if graph.facebook.com is blocked)
* On avg 28% of my requests are blocked and 42% are cached. I am quite sure generally my surfing experience is snappier
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Things like learn running PiHole :
How prevalent tracking really is across the web. A lot of apps dont go "online" if google analytics is blocked (example Toggl)
Manufacturers like Xiaomi are spamming the network with requests - mostly for notification spam
How amazingly scalable, stable RPi+PiHole is - we ran a workshop with 150+ DHCP leases and nearly a few 100k DNS requests without a glitch. Pi didnt even heat up a bit
SmartTV are freaking noisy. Samsung TV makes ~300 DNS requests in <5 min of startup. Literally every button press in the "smart home" is tracked
* By a huge margin the nosiest device is my Android Phone. >40% traffic is coming from just my phone (which is crazy!)
* I have 650,000+ in my domain blacklist and folks complaining about "it doesnt work on pihole" just have taken that tiny bit of error to unblock some domains like "ssl.googleanalytics.com" which break a lot apps. It took me about 1 day to see what isnt working (ex Facebook app break if graph.facebook.com is blocked)
* On avg 28% of my requests are blocked and 42% are cached. I am quite sure generally my surfing experience is snappier
-- Things like learn running PiHole :
How prevalent tracking really is across the web. A lot of apps dont go "online" if google analytics is blocked (example Toggl)
Manufacturers like Xiaomi are spamming the network with requests - mostly for notification spam
How amazingly scalable, stable RPi+PiHole is - we ran a workshop with 150+ DHCP leases and nearly a few 100k DNS requests without a glitch. Pi didnt even heat up a bit
SmartTV are freaking noisy. Samsung TV makes ~300 DNS requests in <5 min of startup. Literally every button press in the "smart home" is tracked