Recent content by grub

A lot of apps, including some YouTube implementations, hard code in a default DNS. Often these are 8.8.8.8. You should block all outgoing DNS from everything but your DNS device. Our Sony TV was doing this.

You should be able to skip it.

Obviously placebo effect or mass delusion.

I guess this is a YMMV situation, because everybody else who sets it up correctly are reporting results similar to mine; no in-video ads and an occassional pre-roll ad. Mine's been running for two weeks, will have to see how long this goes for.

Peppa Pig is a kids show. My own are too old for it, but I heard it was an ad-laden series which is why it makes for good testing. Anyhow, I don't want to hihack @thelonelycoder 's thread, just wanted to clear up a few things for people.

The lookup before the ad always returned a different IP.

Queries happen all the time. The thing that got me wondering about the ads was that immediately before (~200ms here) an in-video ad rolled there was a lookup. 100% of the time. That doesn't mean a lookup is a set up for an ad, but an ad is always preceded by these. I called it an "ad gun", for...

Did you have fewer ads?

Do a tcpdump of the network traffic, you will see the video data still flows when this runs. Now I'm not sure how Google is doing their distribution (likely some Anycast funkiness and tracking to ensure the video flows from whatever IP, it's a black box really and that's a guess) When I first...

Yeah I've had it going for a couple of weeks and it's been amazing. Waited for a couple of days before letting it out in the Pi-hole forum for testing as I wanted to ensure our n=1 results weren't an anomaly. The way the ads would roll immediately after a lookup kind of tipped me off, then a lot...

Nothing is being blocked. I see the same hostnames being reused and going to the IPs in the generated hosts file. No ads, no YouTube breakage.

Good luck! Before I released this we tested for a while (using Pi-hole) on Apple TVs, iPhones, Samsung TV, etc. and it just worked. I left Peppa Pig running for a few hours, it is usually packed with ads. During that test the occassional ad would appear, but after a while only the odd pre-roll...

Mapping the logic in some PAL chips I found using an Arduino and shift registers. Quarantine has me looking for things to do...

The people in the Pi-hole forum thread and Reddit post are reporting excellent results. The script does not block IPs or hostnames. (I wrote the original script based on a hunch I had after analyzing too many network dumps.)

Its behaviour is not to block, but to redirect from a host where an ad is ready to fire from an "ad gun". The Gitlab page for the original is here. edit: should note that I'm the original author. Surprised to see it taking off so well, but the results speak for themselves.