I think part of the problem is a lot of these free games give you bonuses for watching ads. Then the ads they show are awful. And once you watch one ad, it downloads all the ads for when they can’t load.
I think the only real answer is to have some willpower and don’t play the games with awful ads.
residentmarchant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is working less and less in my experience. Most people are serving ads through the same domain they server content from so the Pihole can’t figure out what’s an ad and what’s content so it lets it all through
Still works for certain apps/websites, though
villainy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Even when it does work you can end up with an empty box where the ad should be, still covering content, still with an infinitesimally small X to close the empty box.