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Run your own privacy-first ad blocking service in the cloud for free on Google Cloud Services.
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All tunnels not working in Apps like youtube, instagram, etc #48

Closed DogsPoison closed 5 years ago

DogsPoison commented 5 years ago

All tunnels work fine, show no issue in leakdown, work fine on adblock checkers and block most ads on browser. Apps like youtube and Instagram, for example, are unaffected, youtube pre-video ads still play etc.

Running latest app updates on IOS 12.4

Is another adblock list or something needed?

DogsPoison commented 5 years ago

I would like to also add that google ads on safari come through partially, the images don't load however the body of the ad with text loads.

Edit: adblocking seems to work fine for YouTube though google chrome browser.

rajannpatel commented 5 years ago

blocking YouTube ads is a moving target, and you’ll probably have the best luck crafting a complex regex to add to your blocklist, after analyzing which domains ads are being served from. DNS based ad blocking is only 1 part of your ad blocking solution, you will need a content blocker as well. uBlock Origin is the most popular content blocker on browsers, but you don't always have the luxury of installing it. Some browsers, like Brave, have content blocking baked in.

When your Pi-Hole updates, hopefully the blocklists catch whatever ads are leaking through. If you can identify the advertising domains where these ads are coming from (within Pi-Hole) you could submit the domains to any of the open source projects which track the blocklists (easylist, etc.)

rajannpatel commented 5 years ago

There is a good (recent) conversation about blocking youtube ads via regex patterns from within Pi-Hole here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/cz6t1j/made_a_regex_that_seems_to_work_for_youtube_ads/

Also, please ensure your Pi-Hole is up to date and running with the latest blocklists. If you have done all the tests to ensure your device doesn't have any DNS Leaks, you should be in good shape.

Since this defect hasn't seen any new updates, I'll close it for now. Please reopen it or create a new one if you have new information.

Thanks!