Blocking Roku ads on my pihole

a year ago by modus to c/pihole

I have a pihole server on my network. It used to block the ads on my roku's homescreen and only empty placeholders would show up.

I bought a new Roku player and it doesn't seem to have any of the ads on the homescreen blocked by the pihole. Configuring the "secret menus" doesn't really do anything, as far as I can tell.

Does anyone have any updated methods for blocking ads on the Roku homescreen?

Dave 4 points a year ago

As per a response I found on the orange site, try adding these block lists in pihole: https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist

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modus 2 points a year ago

I'll check them out. Thanks

Edit: Looks like they're working just fine. Exactly what I needed. Much thanks!

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Dave 2 points a year ago

All good! I'm glad it was that. Initially I thought they might be doing tricky stuff with hard coding their DNS server but apparently not, just needed the right block list 🙂

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modus 2 points a year ago

Welp... Looks like whatever I saw last night was just temporary. It's back to showing ads. I tried adding a few other random lists to no avail. I can tell it's hitting my Pi for the DNS lookup. I'm going to try and go through the logs and manually block ad-related domain lookups.

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Dave 1 point a year ago

I can tell it’s hitting my Pi for the DNS lookup.

This is a good sign!

I don't have a Roku so can't help at that level, but this site mentions some domains to block and also a secret menu that lets you remove ads: https://appuals.com/block-ads-roku-tv/

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