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I saw the domain before you edited it lol. I went to the site and have zero ads on mobile, although I did have an empty placeholder in one spot where the ads would have been.
Make sure the following domains are blocked on your pihole:
Then, make sure you have these two lines as entries on your mobile adblocker:
If there is a specific url you'd like me to look at, feel free to message me.
Edit to add: even better than the individual domains, to add
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/hagezi/dns-blocklists@latest/adblock/pro.txtas a list and then just include thegithack.comdomain. Pihole supports adblock syntax, so you'll be fine with this.Edit: Do not click on tracker links below.
Looks like cdn-statically.io has not yet been added to any of the big block lists I use, but I found it in my DNS logs from today. Good catch! I didn't find githack.com or revcontent but added them to block, and it looks like pub.network and html-load.cc are on the big blocklists and getting blocked. Thank for the tips.
I did this, and you're right - no ads. ๐ Thanks a bunch, I've saved your comment so if I run into one of these again I may hit you up!
Thanks for taking the time to let me know it worked for you! I like helping people so this made my day!