[mythtv-users] Slightly OT - replacing DNS server after Ad Blocker gone

[Peter Bennett]

On 7/10/25 11:13, James Abernathy wrote:
> My TV watching is mostly MythTV using Google TV Streamer, but I also 
> use the streamer for NetFlix, Paramount+, etc.
>
> Lately I've found that my Google TV and Android Phone kill apps that 
> find an Ad Blocker in use, like my Raspberry Pi Hole.
>
> So to keep from chasing a moving URL to Whitelist on the PiHole, I'm 
> disabling it. BUT, I also use the Pi-Hole as my DNS server to resolve 
> my local DNS Name records like mythtv.home.arpa, etc.
>
> I'm also running PI-VPN to create a Wireguard VPN so I can access the 
> Mythtv backend while I'm away from home.
>
> I'm collecting opinions on adding the local DNS functionality to the 
> Mythtv backend PC and adding in Tailscale there as well. That way I 
> could remove the Pi-Hole rpi4 and close the port forwarding for pi-VPN.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jim A
>
I have an ad blocker on my DNS using dnsmasq with a raspberry pi. 
Paramount plus with ads would not work with the ad blocker. So on the 
fire stick I manually entered the IP address of the Google DNS Servers 
(8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4).

A few web sites die with ad blocking, in particular annual credit 
reports with one of the agencies. When that happens I manually use  the 
google DNS on that system until I have finished the task at hand.

Peter
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