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TIFU by forgetting I had a Pi-Hole

Obligatory “this actually happened like 3 years ago”.

I hit it off with a girl on a dating app. We went on a date and she seemed legitimately interested in me. The vibes were fantastic. She mentioned enjoying anime and manga, same as I do. When I was at home and we were texting, I recommended some random older manga that I really enjoyed and she asked where she could read it. So I googled around and came across an only mildly sketchy site where one could read it for free. I copied the URL and sent it to her.

She sent me a curt “what the fuck did you just send me?” text and I was baffled. It was a brief loop of “what are you talking about”, “this is fucking disgusting”, “I mean, I guess it’s a little on the darker side, but it’s a horror series, just keep reading”, “why the fuck would you think this was okay to send to me?” And then she unmatched and blocked me. I opened up the link again and it was fine. I had no idea what’d happened.

When I was having lunch with a friend and was venting to him about this, I pulled up the text conversation and clicked the link. I immediately realized what’d happened.

At the time, I had a Pi-Hole set up, a Raspberry Pi that acted as a network-level ad-blocker. When I had originally opened the link while connected to my home network, it just showed all the pages for chapter one and not a single ad. What I did not realize was that the Pi-Hole was holding back an incredible quantity of anime porn advertisements and videos. When later accessing the site on cellular data, I would be greeted with Bulma from Dragonball getting viciously viscerally viscously creampied by Bart Simpson. Closing that ad would show a clip depicting a “actually 1000 year old dragon in a very not 1000 year old girl’s body” doing… things. And some of the ads were even worse, depicting animated things of an even more questionable legal nature. It was sorta impossible to access the underlying site without closing 30 ads first.

It made perfect sense that she would unmatch someone that would send that to her after one date and act like it was fine.

TL;DR: My ad blocker kept me from realizing that the link I was sending to someone I’d go on one date with was filled with horrific hardcore anime porn. She unmatched and blocked me.

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