Flipboard Advertisements - Can the advertisements be blocked?

General
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I use the Flipboard application for news and related stories. Lately the advertisements have become video based and very distracting. I use the flipboard application in both Android and Windows on the same network as Pi-Hole.

I LOVE PI-HOLE!!!

How can we block those Flipboard advertisements?

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This should help determine what to block and then you can add them to your blacklist.

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Noob Pi-Hole user here. Just got it up and running last night, and I had the same issue.

How do you figure out the ad servers from your Android app? The link above describes using Chrome on a browser.

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as a start you could find out the ip of your mobile device and filter on this ip in the log.
Load the flipboard and record the time.
Try to see what is send to your ip (mobile) in the log during that time.
There is no real document how to determine the wanted domains and the unwanted domains.

Its a little bit try and error, but if you block the doamins serving the ads and the flipboard is still working, be so kind to put these domains in the post?

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Thanks for the idea. I will try this out and report what I found.

Is there a rolling list of ad servers that get updated somewhere?

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Hi,

There is about 40 lists of pihole compliant list files tou can add to the filter lists in the gui.
I could send you what I am using, but htis ifo you can also find here in this forum....

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Please do so.

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Something wrong with my post.
editor sees hypperlinks

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
http://adblock.mahakala.is/
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quidsup/notrack/master/trackers.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawsey21/Lists/master/main-blacklist.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdAway/adaway.github.io/master/hosts.txt
http://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
http://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quidsup/notrack/master/trackers.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HenningVanRaumle/pihole-ytadblock/master/ytadblock.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HenningVanRaumle/pihole-ytadblock/master/googlevideo.com%20domains/adverisment.txt

http://www.squidblacklist.org/downloads/dg-ads.acl
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/youtubeadsblacklist/master/domainlist.txthttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/deathbybandaid/piholeparser/master/MirroredFiles/MirroredBlacklists/Anudeep-Youtube.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deathbybandaid/piholeparser/master/Subscribable-Lists/ParsedBlacklists/Disconnect-Advertising-Filter.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deathbybandaid/piholeparser/master/Subscribable-Lists/ParsedBlacklists/Malware-Domains-Just-Domains.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deathbybandaid/piholeparser/master/Subscribable-Lists/ParsedBlacklists/Ransomware-Domain-Blocklist.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deathbybandaid/piholeparser/master/Subscribable-Lists/ParsedBlacklists/Shalla-Malicious.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2y/Shadowrocket-ADBlock-Rules/master/factory/resultant/ad.list
https://neko-dev.github.io/neohosts/full/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/youtubeadsblacklist/master/domainlist.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deathbybandaid/piholeparser/master/Subscribable-Lists/CountryCodesLists/Netherlands.txt

http://malwaredomains.lehigh.edu/files/justdomains

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Use these:

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