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Installed a Pi-hole after reading about DNS filtering and now my roommate won't stop complaining

Last month I finally set up a Pi-hole on my home network after seeing a thread about how much ad traffic it blocks. It took me like 2 hours to get it running on a Raspberry Pi Zero I had sitting around. After 30 days, it's blocked over 18,000 tracking requests just from my two phones and a laptop. My roommate called me yesterday and said his favorite shopping app keeps throwing errors because the ads won't load. I thought he'd be happy about less tracking, but now he's asking me to turn it off. Has anyone else had pushback from family or friends after setting up network level blocking?
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grant.sam
grant.sam16d ago
Just leave the Pi-hole up and tell him to deal with it.
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the_jason
the_jason16d ago
Dude same thing happened with my wife lol. She couldn't figure out why her coupon apps kept crashing and blamed my "little computer thing" for breaking the internet.
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