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The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software.

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Blocking Roku ads on my pihole (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by modus@lemmy.world to c/pihole@sh.itjust.works

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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?

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nice! You should also be able to use the pihole logs to check which domains it's hitting if you need to loosen it later.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was playing with my setup the not too long ago and while reading the documentation, I realized that I never ran the "pihole reloadlists" command. Since doing that, my roku has been unable to show ads.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nice! Glad to hear you got it sorted 🙂