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POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time.
(sh.itjust.works)
This is AFTER debloating all the MS bs as much as I can.
The amount of MS telemetry is just mindboggling.
I used blokada on my phone and it blocked around 10k calls per day. I've since moved to use Mullvad as an always on VPN and turned all of the blockers on. Haven't setup a pihole for my home yet because I didn't have access to the router.
You can put it on the network anyway, you just have to set it as the DNS for each device.
Better to set the DHCP server to hand out the dns rather then set it device by device
Dude said he couldn't access the router, which I assume is handling his DHCP in this scenario. I could be wrong, but that would be unusual.
Yea I should read better
More than 1 every 10 minutes. Seems legit.
Do you have a number that's 1 digit away from Dominos Pizza or something?
I think they meant their smartphone “calling home” not an actual phone call
@sheogorath can you confirm?
Yep I meant API calls when saying calls.
Telemetry DNS/API calls, not dialer calls.
Calls as in network requests not phone calls