Your smart devices are quietly ignoring your Pi-hole, here’s how to stop them
Nyxfrom the dns-rebels-with-a-cause dept.
Smart devices often bypass Pi-hole ad blockers by using hard-coded DNS servers or encrypted DNS protocols that ignore your network settings. This means your ad-blocking investment may not protect against device-generated traffic. Anyone running Pi-hole for security or bandwidth control should understand which devices circumvent it and how to reconfigure or block them.