Hit 1,000 blocked login attempts on my Pi-hole after just 3 months

Honestly I set up a Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi 4 back in April and forgot about it until last week. Checked the dashboard and saw over 1,000 blocked DNS queries from my smart TV alone trying to phone home to trackers. It's wild how much junk gets through even on basic home networks. How many blocks are you guys seeing on your setups?

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daniel_lane3022d ago

And that's just scratching the surface too. I run Pi-hole on a Pi 3 and after a year I'm sitting at about 350,000 blocked queries. The worst offenders are smart TVs and streaming sticks like Roku or Fire TV. They ping home constantly for analytics and ad refreshes. Even things like my Samsung washer and dryer try to phone home now and then. You start realizing how much of your bandwidth is just going to corporations tracking your habits.

alex_johnson22d ago

Roku devices are probably the worst. I blocked over 100,000 queries from mine in just a few months. These gadgets are basically spy boxes disguised as entertainment.