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		mitko on Sept 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mmm, Pi-hole This might be dumb question and me missing something: Is it technically possible for someone to set up a PiHole DNS service similar to how Google has 8.8.8.8 ? It would be much better user experience in my opinion to just set a different DNS than to have to setup a new machine on your network. Monetizing such service sounds tough as you have very minimal leverage over the users (by design!) but perhaps a Patreon/Foundation would be sustainable, similar to how Wikipedia is? Perhaps it could be bundled to a VPN service?

robertely on Sept 26, 2018 [–]

You really want someone you trust as a dns provider.

It would be easy to exploit people and as you say it's basically impossible to monetize. There would be motivation to do so.

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