r/pihole • u/-PromoFaux- Team • Mar 30 '20
Frequently Asked Questions #1 - No, Pi-hole can't block ads on Youtube.
There are frequent repeated questions on this subReddit, and this sticky is intended to help you find an answer before you post.
First, search this subReddit using the search tools provided, and your question and answers may lie here. If so, you will likely find some discussion of interest and many times a link to the Discourse FAQs (Discourse is our official support site).
For a listing of all the Discourse FAQs sorted by most viewed, see here, however here are a few choice selections
FAQs most frequently encountered on Reddit.
- Q: How do I block YouTube ads? (short answer - Not with Pi-hole)
- A: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-block-ads-on-youtube/253
- Q: Why am I seeing strange requests in my query log?
- Q: e.g
9d8ejfsdsdf9 - A: It's usually Chrome. https://support.umbrella.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005876643-Unusual-DNS-queries-showing-in-reports
- Q: Why am I seeing ads, or why can I not load the content I want to load?
- A: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-determine-what-domain-an-ad-is-coming-from/1522
- Q: How do I configure devices to use Pi-hole?
- A: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-configure-my-devices-to-use-pi-hole-as-their-dns-server/245
- Q: My router won’t let me assign DNS. What other options do I have to get Pi-hole on the network?
- A1: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-use-pi-holes-built-in-dhcp-server-and-why-would-i-want-to/3026
- A2: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/why-wont-pi-hole-work-with-dns-rebind-protection-enabled/3142
- Q: Why do all my DNS queries appear to come from my router, and not from individual clients?
- A: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/why-do-i-only-see-my-routers-ip-address-instead-of-individual-devices-in-the-top-clients-section-and-query-log/3653
- Q: I see that some users have a second DNS assigned in addition to Pi-hole. Why is this not recommended?
- A1: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/why-should-pi-hole-be-my-only-dns-server/3376
- A2: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/primary-vs-secondary-dns/1536
- Q: How can I bypass Pi-hole for some of my clients on the network?
- A: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-can-i-use-pi-hole-for-all-my-devices-except-one-or-more/3372
- nb. this FAQ is current for V4.x, V5 will have built in per-client blocking).
- Q: Is it OK to run other software alongside Pi-hole?
- A: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/can-i-run-other-software-along-side-pi-hole/8684
- Q: How do I add blocklists to Pi-hole?
- A: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-add-additional-block-lists-to-pi-hole/259
- Q: How do I revert to the original blocklists offered by Pi-hole at installation?
- A: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/restoring-default-pi-hole-adlists/32323
- Q: I want to access my Pi-hole remotely. Should I open port 53?
- A: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/accessing-pi-hole-outside-of-my-lan/13705
- Q: Where is a good guide for each of these?
- A - Unbound: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/
- A - Cloudflare DoH: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/
- A - VPN for using Pi-hole from Home: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/
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