Post #2458442

2026-05-05 20:45 UTC

Someone should do a write up for pihole vs adguard vs technitium vs eBlockerOS https://eblocker.org/en/ (German product?) (BTW you're all welcome that I showed you a new thing) Edit May 7: eBlockerOS seems geared towards better packet* inspection, hidden trackers protection, and fingerprinting. You can install a HTTPS cert* on your current machine so it does MITM packet inspection where it can scan*, inspect, and reencrypt from the looks of it. Im probably going to run this at work on my test environment to see how well it does overall. Maybe less granular control, but I like is more* than just an adblocker like pihole.

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@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-07 15:16

eBlocker definitely looks like an interesting project, I may end up checking that out.

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@eutampieri@feddit.it 2026-05-06 12:13

eBlocker does indeed seem German. It’s also much more than PiHole (it MITMs your packets, it seems) https://eblocker.org/en/how-eblocker-works/ > eBlocker uses SSL bumping with a unique root certificate to decrypt possibly encrypted TCP/IP packets. After this deep packet inspection a pattern matching to the target URI is performed. In case of a match, the request is answered by the eBlocker (instead of being sent to the target URI). > > As a slightly less accurate alternative, eBlocker uses DNS blocking for fallback, where the domains of known data collectors are blocked. This way, even devices that do not allow to install root certificates are also protected.

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