(windows 10 pro)
I have spectrum internet and use their router because I don’t feel like dealing with replacing routers. Meaning the router config isn’t that in depth compared to having your 3rd party router. I use windscribe VPN, how do I get pihole to block all ads and allow me to windscribe on my devices?
Thanks
Yeah, this is because those sites host the ads directly. Most ads are served by a third party ad service. When you see a banner ad, the site isn’t hosting that directly; They’re just adding a link to the ad provider, then the ad provider serves the ad. So the site doesn’t need to worry about constantly keeping their ad lists up to date, and the ad server can keep an accurate count of how many ads have been served. But this also means the site doesn’t know which ads are being served, because the site isn’t actually handling that part of it; It’s all going straight from the third party ad server to the viewer. All the pihole does is block that third party connection to the ad server.
But that falls apart with sites like YouTube, which directly host the ads. YouTube already has the infrastructure built to be able to host ads, so it’s no extra work for them to do so. It allows them a greater degree of control over which ads get served when, and to whom. And since there’s no third party serving the ads, you can’t simply block the server that is serving the ads; That would block the YouTube videos too, which defeats the entire point of using YouTube in the first place. To block YouTube ads, you need a browser-based adblocker is which capable of actually interpreting whether the incoming video is an ad, then choosing whether or not to block it. The pihole can’t do that without loading the video itself, which it isn’t set up to do.