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Pi-hole

Network-wide ad & tracker blocking

provisional — pending verificationEUPL-1.2self-hostable

Value Index

5.0 / 5

Transparency5

Value density5

Privacy5

Efficiency5

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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

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