The AdHole blog
Answers to the questions people type when ads get in the way: on the TV, across the home, on YouTube. When AdHole is one of the answers, the article says so, and says where it stops.
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How to block cookie banners on Android
On a phone the banner covers half the screen, and “Reject all” is usually one screen further in. Browser settings, extensions, DNS filters and apps each reach a different part of the problem, and only that part. Here is which is which, and what nothing reaches.
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Why Pi-hole can’t block YouTube ads, and what actually can
Pi-hole, AdGuard Home and every other DNS blocker remove plenty of ads, but not YouTube’s. The reason fits in one sentence, and it also tells you where those ads can be removed: inside the app that plays the video, and nowhere else.
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Network-wide ad blocking without a Raspberry Pi
Most guides to blocking ads on the TV and the console start with a Raspberry Pi. A computer you already own can do the same job. Here is how it works, what it really costs, and when a Pi remains the better choice.
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How to block ads on a Samsung or LG TV: what works
Start with the TV’s own settings: they cost nothing and switch off more than you’d expect. A DNS filter then removes part of what’s left. Some ads stay whatever you do, YouTube’s first among them. Here is each step, and where it stops.
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Pi-hole not blocking ads? Check your router’s DNS and IPv6
You installed a DNS ad blocker, changed one setting in the router, and the ads are all still there. Very often the blocker works fine: the devices just aren’t asking it. Two router behaviours cause most of it, and we measured both on a real router.
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YouTube ad blocker not working? Why, and what to do
When an ad blocker stops working on YouTube, one of three things is usually going on: YouTube has spotted it, YouTube makes you wait in place of the ad, or your browser has switched the extension off. Each one has its own fix, and none of them lasts forever.
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uBlock Origin stopped working in Chrome? Your options
If Chrome shows uBlock Origin as switched off and no longer supported, nothing is wrong with your computer: Chrome simply doesn’t run it any more. If you can change browsers, Firefox with uBlock Origin is the closest thing to what you had. If you can’t, there are three other ways, each with a cost.
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Reject all cookies automatically: what happens when you do
Refusing cookies breaks almost nothing. The site still works, you still see ads, just ones not built on your history, and the banner comes back from time to time. Here is what the choice changes, why “Reject all” is so often hard to find, and how to have it clicked for you.
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Stop your smart TV from tracking what you watch
Most smart TVs can recognise what’s on the screen and report it, even when the picture comes from a games console over HDMI. The setting that stops it sits in the TV’s menus, and it works. A DNS filter adds a second lock. Here is how to do both, and what neither can block.
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Blocking ads in Android games without root
Banners between levels, a full-screen page after every round, a video you watch to get a life back. Some of that can be stopped on the phone, without rooting it and without a store. Some of it can’t, and one part of it you probably don’t want stopped. Here is where the line falls, with what we measured on 14 September 2026.