Pi-Hole blocking behaviour not understandble

Pi-hole cannot reliably block YouTube ads, since the ads are served from the same domains as the content. If you block the domains, you interfere with the content. There is a long running thread on this topic.

This list won't help much, and will typically interfere with content.

As for the msn.com ads, when I visit that site using Pi-hole only as an ad-blocker (no browser add-ons installed to block ads), I see no ads. I do see sponsored content.

These tools can help determine the source of ads:

In your specific setup instance, you have provided Cloudflare as a DNS server in addition to Pi-hole. This allows clients to bypass Pi-hole.

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