I have a Chromecast and a pihole. It doesn’t block ads for video and movie rental and doesn’t block youtube ads.
It also has a “feature” for showing newly added or new movies on streaming service, but for some reason it only works for streaming services you aren’t subscribed to. Mostly Disney+. Hmmm I wonder why lol. That also isn’t blocked.
Would pi hole block the ads? Works to block my Roku ads.
I have a Chromecast and a pihole. It doesn’t block ads for video and movie rental and doesn’t block youtube ads.
It also has a “feature” for showing newly added or new movies on streaming service, but for some reason it only works for streaming services you aren’t subscribed to. Mostly Disney+. Hmmm I wonder why lol. That also isn’t blocked.
pihole blocks ads by refusing to return dns results of known ad hosting URLs.
Chromecast ignores your DHCP supplied dns UNLESS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are inaccesible.
People who’s bothered to do this have added static routes to make all requests on port 53 go to the pihole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/uaov2a/how_can_i_override_chromecasts_hardcoded_google/
No, but it’s easy to install a custom launcher. I changed it and had 0 problems.