I find the Pi-hole white/black list function to be too limited for my needs.
I would like to replace the current Pi-hole method with that of the Privoxy +/- block list method. I would use these lists to protect the family LANs. It would be updateable via copy/paste and not require any formal maintenance code.
I would use Privoxy on the individual laptop/desktop computers to keep additional +/- block capability as well as Cookie control and all the other Privoxy features.
The Privoxy code is public and it seems to me that it might be easier to add that code than clean up the Pi-hole white/black list function.
The Yellow Highlighted part allows you to save bandwidth via compression by default it does lzo78 compression but you can choose from 3 others compression types.
And finally to get to your question. Privoxy is a performances based proxy with a lightweight fingerprint to provide https and http proxy features via privacy focused project and along with providing users with advanced filtering capabilities. (It does not do FTP, SOCKS, Gopher, SOCKS5 It only does HTTPS & HTTP if you try and use FTP or any other proxy protocol it will fail and say proxy server is refusing requests.)
**To get faster internet with Privoxy change the highlighted section to 7 if you choose to do 8 or 9 the max compression most sites won't have clickable links and videos may or may not work. **
And Your Second Question
The point is if you use Privoxy it has advanced filtering abilities that go for privacy and performance which means you get faster internet. But if you don't use the Pi as the router you can't use the Privoxy without configuring it on all clients manually, now if you use the Pi as the router and the Privoxy Server via transparent connection you get the full benefits of both and get even extra performance.
It does appear to filter only HTTPS ad domain names. But pi-hole obviously does that already, so privoxy for https is redundant. As more website switch to https, the less useful privoxy will become.
A good approach would be to use pihole with ublock origin if installation is possible.
If you use privoxy in conjunction with proxhttps proxy Privoxy with ProxHTTPSProxyMII v1.3a on linux you will get filtering of https, i used it and is going to test it with pihole again.
Hi, sorry for bumping old thread. I have been finding adblocking signs little awkward. That means i get to see x mark and greyed out area where usually the ad gets displayed.
Is it possible to remove this greyed out area with x mark using any tool in Pihole ??? just like what Privoxy used to do before ?
No. Pi-hole either blocks a domain or provides the IP of the domain to the requesting client. With the IP, the client then proceeds to load content. Pi-hole is unaware of any of the content that is either being loaded or is missing from the web page, and cannot provide any display cleanup.
A good browser extension that will clean up the page is uBlock Origin (not to be confused with other versions of uBlock; uBlock Origin is the original).
This privoxy program, my first time learning about, is like a self hosted or rather network-wide version of NoScript, which is also what the FireFox onion router browser uses to block all scripts on a webpage. I'm definitely installing this today!
