To anyone who hasn't I highly encourage setting up PiHole. Great for reducing the severity of these sorts of things, and helps to sanitize and clean up your internet.
Don't need to buy a Pi either, it can run on a laptop or desktop just fine.
It's great for catching anything that can't be by an in-browser adblocker, like in the OS or on other devices.
If you don't want to host your own DNS, there are also managed options.
I pay for and use both Eero Secure (intercepts DNS requests sent to non-NextDNS servers) and NextDNS (set on my clients so it's also effective when away from home).
I have no experience with NextDNS, but with PiHole I can say it has been very "set and forget". Logged into the router, set the DNS server IP. Then into Windows to disable IPv6. Now it just runs in the background quietly for years. It can be set up to do updates automatically as well if desired.
I have occasionally disabled it, thinking it may have been the cause of some internet trouble, but so far that's never been true.
> I have occasionally disabled it, thinking it may have been the cause of some internet trouble, but so far that's never been true.
I hear people say this about PiHole all the time but I have a hard time believing it. I run into a couple sites a week that don't work right with Firefox standard privacy settings and UBlock Origin. I certainly don't want to add another troubleshooting step when web sites break.
Don't need to buy a Pi either, it can run on a laptop or desktop just fine.
It's great for catching anything that can't be by an in-browser adblocker, like in the OS or on other devices.