I set up a Raspberry Pi 3 with AdguardHome for a friend of mine, and told him to disconnect everything at home and try to watch anything on his phone, being the only device using his home’s internet.
He just sent me this, and now he’s ready to #degoogle 🤣🤣🤣
He says there were hundreds in less than 5 minutes.
I’m all in favor of privacy and people moving away from Google services and it does suck that so many different apps and services will perform DNS checks like this which in turn, can compromise your security and give away information which can be used by third parties but at the same time, is reviewing all of this not exhausting?
I’m always keen to upgrade and improve my privacy, to some degree I’m happy to compromise on convenience but there is a limit. If I have to consistently review a firewall like this I think I’d get sick of it pretty quick. Not to mention when blocking something unexpectedly breaks something and the time you spend figuring all of that out.
It’s less work than you think. It has a decent default setup and then you just unblock whatever you need when you realize something is dropping.