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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 105 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (19 children)

...until your family complains that their favorite site has stopped working.

Pi-Hole these days allows you to create Groups so you can set certain devices to fewer or less restrictive blocklists or just leave their connection untouched entirely. Groups is basically how you solve the problem of it breaking something for someone else.

Source: Pissed off my roommate who I somehow accidentally blocked from using Google to appraise his magic cards or something.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 21 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Oh haha! My wife had a similar issue with Google and those "deals" it shows, when searching for something to buy :D

[–] IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Haha. Same with mine. She was mad that she was not seeing ads everywhere as she liked to interact with them and buy stuff.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

God regular people are so fucking weird haha. I just can't wrap my mind around wanting to click on ads.

Sometimes I wonder if working in local television news for 10 years and being subjected to ads basically constantly broke something in me.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Had a family member complaining that they couldn't access “the internet” and found that they only clicked ads on google searches...

(boggle)🧠

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

The state of computer literacy and media literacy is appalling.

[–] SausageWallet@lemm.ee 1 points 57 minutes ago

Pop up ads in the early internet days are what made me not ever want to click on an ad. Regular people must have missed that era of Internet.

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