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I ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 so I have a Pi 3 that’s about to be redundant. I haven’t used Pi-Hole so I was thinking it’d be good for that but I’m curious if there’s any downsides for users. Are sites blocked if you dont whitelist them? That sort of thing.

Basically, I’m not worried about me having issues but I’m worried about a maintenance headache if friends and family can’t access things.

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Quite often, yes, especially for apps.

For nearly a year the Android Amazon app wouldn't work. It would load, and then when a tracker failed to start, would show a generic error message page.

US bank mobile app wouldn't login for about 2 months last year.

This happens quite often when apps are built with dependencies they assume will load, and when there is a failure an error boundary catches it and shows an error view.

[–] Mixel@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

It heavily depends which filter lists you use obviously. I never had this issues and neither my family does

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