I ran pi-hole on my NAS. Then I pointed my router at it to make it the DNS for my whole network. The only problem was it would create issues when I had a power outage. If things didn’t start up with the right timing they would get wonky and certain devices would report as not having Internet.

That’s why I bought an OpenWRT One so I could install an equivalent to pi-hole on in directly. Though I hit a snag with that and don’t currently have that running.

I haven’t noticed much of a difference without the pi-hole running (my NAS is dead right now). I think some of my devices had their own DNS settings so they weren’t using the config from the router.

Since it’s probably not clear to those unfamiliar, this is literally true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act

I assumed this was going to be a solution to Japan’s problems of an increasingly elderly population combined with a refusal to increase immigration.