Why did I look for a Pi-Hole alternative? My main motivation for moving away from PiHole was enabling ad blocking and site blocking on my smartphone, which I often use outside my home network. I described this journey in one of my older blog posts, PiHole, but hosted in the cloud. I shared the discovery … Read more
Wouldn’t it be great to have your Pi-Hole hosted in the cloud and accessible everywhere? Perhaps you could use its ad blocking on your smartphone. Or at work. Or, when your laptop connects to a Wi-Fi network when you travel. I tried to make PiHole accessible everywhere, but it was tricky. A typical Raspberry Pi … Read more
One of the common ways to do two-factor Authentication is to use an authenticator app like Authy, Microsoft Authenticator, 1Password or LastPass Authenticator. Authy manages one-time passwords The common denominator of Authy and other apps mentioned above is that they generate time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). They are usually set up like in the screenshot below. … Read more
If you use PiHole to block your ads, you might be unpleasantly surprised after installing NordVPN. After you connect to a VPN server, your previous DNS settings won’t be respected. In other words, DNS queries will no longer go to your PiHole resolver, but to NordVPN’s resolver. When I originally wrote this post in 2021, … Read more