I put in the blacklist LITERALLY EVERYTHING. But Spotify annoying ads still play...
Is it possible they made a new system that doesn't need DNS requests but works with IPs so that they make PiHole block useless? I don't know what else can it be...
My PiHole works. If I block a host, when I go in that site it fails like it should. But I guess that the "hosts method" for Spotify no longer works.
Here is my blacklist (you will see literally everything, even google.com lol, because at a certain point I became paranoid about how could they bypass pihole, and I blocked really everything..)
pubads.g.doubleclick.net
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
gads.pubmatic.com
ads.pubmatic.com
adclick.g.doublecklick.net
adeventtracker.spotify.com
ads-fa.spotify.com
analytics.spotify.com
audio2.spotify.com
b.scorecardresearch.com
bounceexchange.com
bs.serving-sys.com
www.spotify.com
production.ws.skyegloup.com
audio-ake.spotify.com.edgesuite.net
i.scdn.co
apresolve.spotify.com
login5.spotify.com
gew1-accesspoint-a-lbb9.ap.spotify.com
spclient.wg.spotify.com
prod-cc-us-e-1.ws.skyegloup.com
dealer.spotify.com
pl.scdn.co
heads4-ak-spotify-com.akamaized.net
v2.firmware.denon.jp
heads-fa.spotify.com
content.bitsontherun.com
core.insightexpressai.com
crashdump.spotify.com
d2gi7ultltnc2u.cloudfront.net
d3rt1990lpmkn.cloudfront.net
desktop.spotify.com
doubleclick.net
ds.serving-sys.com
googleadservices.com
googleads.g.doubleclick.net
gtssl2-ocsp.geotrust.com
log.spotify.com
media-match.com
omaze.com
open.spotify.com
pagead46.l.doubleclick.net
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
partner.googleadservices.com
redirector.gvt1.com
s0.2mdn.net
tpc.googlesyndication.com
v.jwpcdn.com
video-ad-stats.googlesyndication.com
weblb-wg.gslb.spotify.com
www.googleadservices.com
www.googletagservices.com
www.omaze.com
js.moatads.com
heads-ak.spotify.com.edgesuite.net
heads4-ak.spotify.com.edgesuite.net
adservice.google.co.uk
audio4-ak.spotify.com.edgesuite.net
adnxs.com
adnxs.comadplexmedia.adk2x.com
ads.spotify.com
audio-sp-sto.spotify.com
cs126.wpc.edgecastcdn.net
d3rt199lpmkn.cloudfront.net
gew1.ap.spotify.com
googleadapis.l.google.com
googleads4.g.doubleclick.net
lon6-accesspoint-a33.lon6.spotify.com
s.2mdn.net
seen-on-screen.thewhizmarketing.com
server-54-23-216-23.mrs5.r.cloudfront.net
u.scdn.co
upgrade.scdn.co
upgrade.spotify.com
audio-fa.scdn.co
audio-fa.spotify.com
ad.atdmt.com
adlab.spotify.com
ads-akp.spotify.com
adserver.adtechus.com
ads-sp-lon.cdn.spotify.com
ads-west-colo.adsymptotic.com
anycast.pixel.adsafeprotected.com
assets.spotify.com
audio-ak.spotify.com
audio-akp.spotify.com
audio-cf.spotify.com
audio-ec.spotify.com
audio-fab.spotify.com
audio-fac-spotify.com
audio-gc.scdn.co
audio-gc.spotify.com
audio-sp-lon.spotify.com
beta.spotify.map.fastly.net
bid.g.doubleclick.net
cm.g.doubleclick.net
crashdump.ciqe-gslb.spotify.com
cs126.wpc.teliasoneracdn.net
cs283.wpc.teliasoneracdn.net
d361oi6ppvq2ym.cloudfront.net
dt.adsafeprotected.com
fw.adsafeprotected.com
geo3.ggpht.com
googlehosted.l.googleusercontent.com
googletagservices.com
heads-ak.spotify.com
heads-akp.spotify.com
heads-cf.spotify.com
heads-ec.spotify.com
heads-fa.scdn.co
heads-fab.spotify.com
heads-fac.spotify.com
idsync-ext.rlcdn.com
links.spotify.com
log2.spotify.com
mp3ad.scdn.co
na.gmtdmp.com
pagead.l.doubleclick.net
pagead-googlehosted.l.google.com
partnerad.l.doubleclick.net
partner-service.spotify.com
partner-service-testing.spotify.com
payment-callback.spotify.com
pci.spotify.com
pixel.spotify.com
prod.spotify.map.fastlylb.net
prod.spotify-heads.map.fastlylb.net
secure.insightexpressai.com
server-54-230-216-203.mrs50.r.cloudfront.net
showads33000.pubmatic.com
spotify-desktop.com
sto3.spotify.com
sto3-accesspoint-a88.sto3.spotify.net
sync.adaptv.advertising.com
techattend.com
video-fa.cdn.spotify.com
video-fa.scdn.co
video-fa-b.cdn.spotify.com
devicemetadataservice.trafficmanager.net
audio-akp-bbr-spotify-com.akamaized.net
exp.wg.spotify.com
heads-ak-spotify-com.akamaized.net
scannables.scdn.co
spritemaps.scdn.co
video-akp-cdn-spotify-com.akamaized.net
prod-ada.ws.skyegloup.com
www.spotify-desktop.com
www.audio2.spotify.com
www.google.com
84.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
91.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
240.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
239.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
229.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
152.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
1.1.1.1.in-addr.arpa
1.0.0.1.in-addr.arpa
fonts.googleapis.com
fonts.gstatic.com
themes.googleusercontent.com
adservice.google.it
play.google.com
www3.l.google.com
id.rlcdn.com
www.googletagmanager.com
clients4.google.com
safebrowsing.googleapis.com
Do you have any suggestion? The problem is when I play music from my phone or pc TO my amplifier that has Spotify app (with spotify connect).
The thing is that I constantly monitor the "Query log" tab in Pihole control panel, and if I see something that can be spotify related, I block it. And now it's some time I refresh the page and there are not new hosts to block, there are always the same ones that I blocked. And ads still play. This is strange.