Content Filtering: Protect Your Home Network With Web

    • Is there a solution with Internetbox2 to protect the home network with content filters? Do you have to use OpenDNS?

    Thank you

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    • There are different ways to use content filters.

      For me personally, using DNS services is almost the easiest.

      I myself built a DNS using Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi, which directly blocks sites that I don’t want on the internet.

      Alternatively, you can also use block services such as Adguard: https://adguard.com/de/adguard-dns/overview.html

      Not only lists for ad blocking but also for other “sites” 😏 are offered here. You can simply set an IP from Adguard as DNS in the Internet box and it should work.

    There are different ways to use content filters.

    For me personally, using DNS services is almost the easiest.

    I myself built a DNS using Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi, which directly blocks sites that I don’t want on the internet.

    Alternatively, you can also use block services such as Adguard: https://adguard.com/de/adguard-dns/overview.html

    Not only lists for ad blocking but also for other “sites” 😏 are offered here. You can simply set an IP from Adguard as DNS in the Internet box and it should work.

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    Dominik

    Hello @Polureg @DomiP

    As Dominik said, I also use a PiHole at home.

    You can block unwanted sites there.

    But if you manually enter a DNS server on your device, the requests will not go out via the PiHole.

    I have listed the tracking sites on PiHole that are trying to extract data.

    Greetings Lorenz

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    Exactly, in theory you would also have to have a VPN that brings you into the network from outside. But it’s cumbersome and a bit inefficient…

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    Dominik

    5 months later

    It is possible with pi-hole to determine for each device in the local network whether the requests should be filtered or not. The solution is to enter the address of the pi-hole device as the DNS site for the device (to be filtered). It works best if you give a static address for the pi-hole host.

    Advantage: you can determine individually for each device whether it needs to be filtered or not

    Disadvantage: cumbersome for larger LANS with many devices.

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