Your Pi-hole Isn’t Catching Everything, Plus everything I missed in Part 1

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Pi-hole - Oops edition is here! After A MINIMUM of 300+ successful installs in 6 days, I pulled your comments, built a word cloud, and put all the missing pieces in one place: hardware picks, blocklists (and breakage), device groups, whitelisting, why your ISP router stinks, how to stop Roku/PlayStation/Chromecast/Google TV and DoH/DoT from bypassing your filters, plus easy ways to use your Pi-hole on the go (Tailscale/Twingate/VPN). I also updated the worksheet to fix the most common issues. Links mentioned: • Updated Worksheet (Pi-hole + Unbound): https://www.dad-the-engineer.com/blog/rpi-pi-hole-unbound-optional-worksheet • Local Forwarding post (LAN names & cleaner logs): https://www.dad-the-engineer.com/blog/so-i-may-have-forgotten-to-mention-something-about-pi-hole Hardware picks (what actually works) • Pi 3B+ (1GB) or Pi 4B (2GB) = perfect • Pi Zero 2 W = great for the redundant second Pi • microSD: SanDisk/PNY is fine for this workload • Case optional (I use vintage Netflix DVD mailers… don’t judge) Chapters (suggested) 00:00 - Oops 01:37 - Where to buy legit Raspberry Pis 02:10 - Which Pi to choose (why not Pi 5?) 02:47 - microSD endurance reality check 03:12 - Cases (or… envelopes) 03:30 - Non-Pi installs (quick notes) 03:49 - Worksheet fixes (root hints & NTP) 04:24 - Local Forwarding (why you want it) 04:49 - Blocklists, “aggro level,” & groups/whitelists 05:24 - General Pi-hole usage 06:01 - “Will the Ethernet port/wifi bottleneck?” (No.) 06:41 - ISP router pain (UK especially) + bridge/Double-NAT options 07:57 - Rogue devices & apps (Roku/PS/Chromecast/Google TV, DoH/DoT) 09:07 - Firewall strategy: block 53/853 + common DoH endpoints 10:09 - Using Pi-hole on the go (DDNS/forwarding vs Tailscale/Twingate vs self-VPN vs VPS) 11:31 - “I still see ads” (expectations, telemetry wins) 12:36 - Membership, discord, new members, and THE RAFFLE!!!! If this helped, click 👍, subscribe, hype, and share this with the one friend whose Pi-hole is 80% vibes and 20% filtering. Members keep these deeper dives possible - thank you! #PiHole #RaspberryPi #DNS #HomeLab #Privacy #AdBlocking #Unbound #Tailscale #DoH #DoT