Pi-hole does have a feature where you can temporarily disable it for exceptional cases like that. You could have used that instead of uninstalling it altogether.

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wqtz 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The issue is that I did not discover the problem until it was already too late. Then I asked myself is DNS level filtering even useful for me? A traditional browser based adblocker already does the job. Pihole does not block ads YouTube.

The quality of life improvement of having pihole was minimum. I would rather just use cloudflare or google's DNS. What value prop pihole provides I have no idea. I think that is what I feel about many if not all privacy focused tooling this way.

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JohnFen 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Being unfamiliar with tools you rely on comes with some downsides, it appears.

	▲	wqtz 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Privacy tooling often is devoid of common human nature which is get shit done without making a religion out of it. Good tools are not configurable or dynamic, they just serve a purpose. A hammer or a toaster over...these are good tools. The issue with privacy tools is more about the movement and mission aspect of it. I underestimated how prolific the idea of tracker - first engineering. Tracking (by the defintion of privacy advocate) is inherent in many if not most system. The privacy preaching that I have been subject to made me believe that privacy is a one button tool. Whether open source or privacy, I feel like has very little net utility when you offset it by convenience or consequences. You can pay for YouTube premium or you can update the sideloaded app every other week.

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