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by stordoff 2558 days ago
Not if the analytics companies start being contacted by hardcoded IP address, or the apps otherwise avoid DNS. May not by a common technique now, but it could become one.
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All of this describes my Chromecast nicely. There are others that do it too. Forcing this traffic through the Pihole isn’t always helpful though, as blocking it entirely breaks the Chromecast (which is used mainly for playing local media).