pi-hole no longer blocking IOS Ads

[h0b0]

I have been running a pi-hole for several years and have been very happy to not endure adverts on games. However, something has changed and now some ADs are getting through again. Are there any recommendations for adlists that continue to be useful?


edited to add that it is only some ads are getting through. These are android and IOS in game ads. One of the main reasons I set it up.

Edited by h0b0 on Wednesday 2nd August 14:02

[Magnum 475]

You may find the app developers have got wise, and are serving content directly rather than linking to a site that pi-hole can block.

I've come across a few apps now that do this, and there appears to be no way of blocking it short of blocking the entire app.

[h0b0]

That was my suspicion/fear and is why I have youtube premium. I noticed one of my adlists was no longer active and hoped this may be the cause and there was a replacement list.

[colin79666]

Got iCloud private relay running? If so it bypasses local dns filtering.

Add mask.icloud.com and mask-h2.icloud.com to Pihole to block private relay or just turn it off in the Wi-Fi settings for your home network on your mobile device (limit up address tracking).

[h0b0]

I do not have iCloud turned on and this is impacting the kids android tablets as well. I am going to continue researching my options.

[Church of Noise]

Which device takes care of dhcp? If its your provider's router, maybe that got an update/reset?

Did you check if queries still pass through pi-hole at least? (eg by going to a site of your choice and checking if the domain pops up in the pi-hole query log).

[beko1987]

Can depend on the handset too. I had to tweak a setting on my Android to stop it using the mobile data when on wifi, which used to bypass my pihole and be very annoying!

equally I had a Huawei P30 pro brifly which routed everything through china and its own servers even with the pihole settings plumbed in, so I got ads. After some googling I worked out that's just what they do, and now I have a Samsung again...

Might be worth a google, if apple have changed settings then it's highly possible it'll bypass the local settings which sounds highly annoying...

I assume it's working fine still on non IOS devices?

[h0b0]

It is only on games the kids play on both android and IOS. Android are wifi only I checked the DHCP pool and it only has the pi-hole i.p.

[Church of Noise]

It is not unknown for apps (Google does this too) to have hard-coded DNS, which means that unless you're catching DNS traffic at the firewall level (port 53), this might also be a cause...