Good stuff smokie.
Now, if you discover, as I did recently, that somehow ads start popping up even though PiHole swears blind nothing is getting through, you too can discover the delights of your browser deciding all by itself (and not telling you) to bypass your own dns and hop off to the Google dns servers.
It's very naughty.
If you want to suppress that, you can either change a setting in your browser via a simple switch or flag (details on request) or go the whole hog, as I did in the end, and tell your Virgin router never to allow access to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, and even, again as I did, to 1.1.1.1. It's in the advanced/security settings.
And then you find it tries once again to get past THAT, so you have to kill the extra naughty one.one.one.one address it decides to try. So block that one in your Windows hosts file or PiHole as you prefer.
Those 1/ones are the Cloudflare server. You might prefer to keep Cloudfare for other reasons of your own of course.
It's like whack-a-mole sometimes, but I think doing all that locks you down pretty tightly. I know I can get a bit obsessive about it all, but it's kind of fun to occasionally see an ad or popup appear and think, aha, you little beggar, how did YOU get through, and track it all the place to see what's happening and why.
I knew nothing about DoH before all this, so I've learned something.
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