PiHole and Cookie Warnings (kbin.social)

submitted 3 years ago by LazerFX@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm trying to figure out how to stop having to unblock the pihole, in order to bypass cookie consent alerts. I think this is a devious new attempt by the advertising brigade to ensure that adverts are played, but more and more cookie consent blockers are not working properly if you've got an adblocker, and as I've got one at the network level, this is a real frustration. I've tried a few browser-based bypassers, but that doesn't work for many mobile devices, and sort of defeats the purpose of havign a network-level adblocker...

Has anyone else hit this issue and how have you worked around it?

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[-] BitPirate@feddit.de 5 points 3 years ago

Cookie banners are usually from the same domain. I doubt you can block them via DNS.

[-] LazerFX@kbin.social 1 points 3 years ago

That's exactly the problem. Parts of the cookie banner are from the same domain, but then other parts are from the advertisers domain. So blocking the advertiser blocks bits of the banner, meaning you cannot click on the banner, because it's just not letting you do so.

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