Basic add blocker?

Semple said:
Yeah I suspect he actually means via browser, which Adguard already does.
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I reckon he means everything as the pihole operates at the DNS level. Thing is whilst it works against a lot of bloat, telemetry etc. I have seen the kids devices (tablets) and wife's phone where some of these things get round it for sure. You also have the issue as some have posted earlier that random things stop working, so whilst I agree it is a must have tool in your setup these days, to naively think 'oh my pihole blocks everything' smugly is ridiculous. All of the top tech companies out there will be finding ways around this stuff, or it will break genuine operation of how some comms work.
 
V F said:
Is that including through the twitch and youtube mobile iOS apps?
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Yes, no adverts

Sometimes a new one pops up I just load up pihole ad block another subdomsin or weird sddress

Hit a lot of ad*.ytbe.com and various other odd yt domains in my block list
 
gpuerrilla said:
I reckon he means everything as the pihole operates at the DNS level. Thing is whilst it works against a lot of bloat, telemetry etc. I have seen the kids devices (tablets) and wife's phone where some of these things get round it for sure. You also have the issue as some have posted earlier that random things stop working, so whilst I agree it is a must have tool in your setup these days, to naively think 'oh my pihole blocks everything' smugly is ridiculous. All of the top tech companies out there will be finding ways around this stuff, or it will break genuine operation of how some comms work.
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Indeed, sometimes in past I had issues specially when they started using hardcoded dns servers or locking chrome to Dns Over https.

Some Google services still do try to hardcoded dns servers in apps and bypass pihole entirely
You can stop this by blocking devices using *. *. *. * then once it fails it will default to os level servers

Or if your savvy enough you can redirect Google hardcoded dns servers back to pihole then it will use pihole but fiddly but works.[/QUOTE]
 
I will get on it again as I took it out to re-site in another room (garage instead of loft). Been busy on life so the projects take a hit but is a good time to service and check the SD cards over while im at it.

There was another one I tried and used docker to run it, cant remember its name now.
 
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