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How do you deal with sites that block you because they detect an ad blocker

I’m new using pihole and it’s doing its thing good.

I needed to unblock the google ads for a bit while searching for hotels using google maps, because after you find the hotels around you and you click on the link it goes to the google ad tracker that redirects you to the hotel website. Unblocking the domain was the fastest otherwise I would need to search for the website then find the hotel if it’s on some of the aggregator sites like booking.com.

Now there is a TV show that I want to watch. It’s in another country, so the time is off for me to watch it live. They have a recording on the website. The issue is that the website detects ad blocker when I try to open the page with the player of the episode I want to watch. I suspect it’s some kind of js with timer checking cookies from the ad sites but I didn’t investigate. What I am doing is before I open the website I switch to unfiltered DNS open the site and the page with the player with the episode. At that point I switch back to pihole and click the “Play” button. The video starts and there are no ads interruptions (where there should be every 5 min otherwise).

So my question is how do you deal with stuff that you want to access but because you are using pihole you can’t.

Source: r/pihole · by /u/BSPirat

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