Competition - What does your pi-hole block...but still allow the internet to work?

[Dravinian]

Just a friendly competition, wanted to see whether I could 'optimise' my pi-hole to work better for me, and rather than a dry thread about what to do, I thought I would make it a competition.

 

No posting up 80% when we all know you can't access the web! Real usable percentages people!!

 

 

This is my best so far, totally usable (except for idiots like NZXT who block VPNs) - though I just noticed they don't block my network wide VPN....

 

Anyone got any better?

[vf1000ride]

I might need a better blocklist.

 

[AngryBeaver]

This is a GB connection that has constant traffic. So my blocked percentage would be lower. Mind you a high block percentage isn't good. It could mean you have lots of devices beaconing home. This could be Spyware, adware, virus, or just your smart devices.

 

So in my home the 20% would mostly include a few ads from people browsing the web, some smart devices, etc.

 

Then again like I said my internet usage is a pretty steady 100 down/100 up before even accounting for my home users.

 

Oh I am also redirecting to another dns that blocks malicious sources (cloudfront)

[Dravinian]

2 hours ago, AngryBeaver said:

This is a GB connection that has constant traffic. So my blocked percentage would be lower. Mind you a high block percentage isn't good. It could mean you have lots of devices beaconing home. This could be Spyware, adware, virus, or just your smart devices.

 

So in my home the 20% would mostly include a few ads from people browsing the web, some smart devices, etc.

 

Then again like I said my internet usage is a pretty steady 100 down/100 up before even accounting for my home users.

 

Oh I am also redirecting to another dns that blocks malicious sources (cloudfront)

I agree, I know why mine is so high, it is currently sitting at 74%....it is one thing being blocked 5670 times....

 

Gonna try and excise it now....but tell you what, if i wasn't for pi-hole...I might never have known it was there.

 

It is ssl.gstatic.com can be malicious, but also used by google...so malicious then.

[Brian Blankenship]

[Jarsky]

I don't have anything that isn't unusable really. 

(P.S you can really see my automated cron jobs in my DNS )