Lately, I've noticed sites that never had ads appear are now showing ads. For example, on CNN website, ads never appeared. Now they are showing up. This is just one of several where I see that. Sometimes after a reboot, things return to the earlier state - no ads. But then they start to reappear again. We have all the latest updates installed and have rebooted Pi-hole, yet the condition continues. And it doesn't matter what browser used, it happens on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix I'm missing?
Are you keeping up with your add lists? Upadting etc? Its an every changing lanscape and advertisers find ways around blockers. We then find that thery changed and block said change. Pihole is not one and done. It is constant maitenance if it is to be effective. Pihole is just a tool, not the solution.
If you just loaded a ton of lists and went with it, thats your issue. But also check to make sure you have your groups and lists assigned correctly.
Thanks! It's curious that even MS games (like Solitare) are showing ads now. We keep everything up to date (my wife is an IT expert and stickler for making sure we have the latest patches).