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Pi-hole

Network-wide ad & tracker blocking

provisional — pending verificationEUPL-1.2self-hostable
Arete score
5.0 / 5
Autonomy5
Return5
Efficiency5
Transparency5
ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →
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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending. Working notes ↓

Why it's listed

Pi-hole is listed in home & network privacy because it competes on utility: network-wide ad & tracker blocking. It's community-maintained open source: the incentive is the tool itself. Licensed EUPL-1.2; pricing: free / donations. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License
EUPL-1.2
Pricing
Free / donations
Funding model
Community OSS
Self-hostable
Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces
browser ad-blockers (network-wide)
Verification
Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

Evidence notes

Runs on a Pi Zero

Recorded during the rubric pass — every score must carry evidence a stranger could re-check.

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