Is there a consumer-friendly Pi-Hole?

Question

Does a consumer-friendly version of a Pi-Hole, one that would be easy for someone non-technical to set up, exist? If not, is there a reason why?

pensatoio · Accepted Answer

Pi-hole is only effective when paired with NAT rules on your router to capture all DNS lookups.Maybe there are routers with Pi-hole installed? I haven&rsquo;t looked. I&rsquo;ll bet there are guides for installing Pi-hole on edge routers, for example. You could then give the router to someone, ready to go.

lq0000 · Answer

I quite easily set up a DNS blacklist on my USG. Still not quite what I'd call consumer friendly, but only a couple of console commands as opposed to setting up the entire pi. Instructions here: https://community.ui.com/questions/HowTo-Ad-blocking-using-d...

djimu · Answer

I have heard of eBlocker but haven't personality tried it.

rexpi0 · Answer

https://winstonprivacy.com/ is the only thing I&rsquo;m aware of that&rsquo;s remotely similar to Pi-Hole; but it comes with a subscription cost.

approxim8ion · Answer

If by Pi-Hole you mean a host-based adblocking solution, NextDNS is perhaps the most consumer-friendly. I am a paying customer myself and highly recommend it.But if you mean a _local_ host-based adblocking hardware solution for your entire network then I don't know, unfortunately.

ohiovr · Answer

Could a coin be made by selling a micro sd card with it set up on it?

Is there a consumer-friendly Pi-Hole?

Does a consumer-friendly version of a Pi-Hole, one that would be easy for someone non-technical to set up, exist? If not, is there a reason why?

Pi-hole is only effective when paired with NAT rules on your router to capture all DNS lookups.
Maybe there are routers with Pi-hole installed? I haven’t looked. I’ll bet there are guides for installing Pi-hole on edge routers, for example. You could then give the router to someone, ready to go.

I quite easily set up a DNS blacklist on my USG. Still not quite what I'd call consumer friendly, but only a couple of console commands as opposed to setting up the entire pi. Instructions here: https://community.ui.com/questions/HowTo-Ad-blocking-using-d...

I have heard of eBlocker but haven't personality tried it.

https://winstonprivacy.com/ is the only thing I’m aware of that’s remotely similar to Pi-Hole; but it comes with a subscription cost.

If by Pi-Hole you mean a host-based adblocking solution, NextDNS is perhaps the most consumer-friendly. I am a paying customer myself and highly recommend it.
But if you mean a _local_ host-based adblocking hardware solution for your entire network then I don't know, unfortunately.

Could a coin be made by selling a micro sd card with it set up on it?