Any Ideas On Things To Implement In Pfsense?

[S-F]

I just last week made the switch from DD-WRT to pfsense and now that I finally have everything running the way it was on my old router I'm looking for ways to leverage all of the possibilities of my new machine.

Ad blocking:
I used to block ads using this pixelserv method and it worked rather well: https://www.howtogeek.com/51477/how-to-remove-advertisements-with-pixelserv-on-dd-wrt/
I have followed this guide for ad blocking in pfsense: https://www.linuxincluded.com/block-ads-malvertising-on-pfsense-using-pfblockerng-dnsbl/
Does anyone have any thoughts they'd like to share about the guide or any other ideas they'd like to share?

VPN:
I have been using PIA as a VPN service for over a year now by running the client on individual machines. Yesterday I got it running on the pfsense router and it's great. Does anyone have any ideas on ways to possibly improve this?

I guess at this point now that I have everything up and running I'm just looking for ways to take greater advantage of my possibilities. I see that there are a ton of packages but I don't really have an in depth idea of what they do. I looked into using squid to cache web traffic but it looks like it's all but impossible for https.

Any ideas or tips are highly appreciated!

 

[wolfofone]

Hmm https cache should be possible though you may have to install certs to each PC. Not sure...

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Too lazy to setup adblocking myself.
RPi + PiHole = done deal for all devices on the network.

 

[S-F]

I think I set up all the pi-hole stuff in pfSense through PFBlockerNG using the DNSBL feeds the pi-hole uses. I think............... From the guide in the second link I posted. Has anyone done https caching?

 

[rtangwai]

If you need remote access to your network you might want to implement OpenVPN.

Squid and SquidGuard are useful too if you have a lot of devices connecting to your network.

Maybe a RADIUS server?

If you have friends use your network maybe a captive portal?