Ads are blocked, but not removed from the space on the website

[jacob.salmela]

Block certain sites

This is exactly right, but see below... If Pi-hole was solely a DNS server, than this would be correct. However, Pi-hole also includes a Web server, which can actually handle the URLs. Here is an example that I have been experimenting with assuming adserver-us.adtech.advertising.com is a blocked domain. By default, if you curl -I this domain, you get a response like this: HTTP/1.1 200 OK X-Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements. Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date: Sun,…