Hey yall, I want to get into self-hosting. I want to start from hosting on a raspberry pi, and I am just wondering if yall have any recommendations (I’ve never hosted anything before, but have experience in linux and programming). Sorry if it’s bit of a stupid question.
Pihole my is choice too. It’s pretty good, but for some reason video ads still get through even off YouTube? Is it possible to block them?
uBlock Origin gets rid of every single one.
You are not wrong, but uBlock needs to be installed on each device and only works on the browser, while pihole blocks adds across the whole network for all devices.
I have pihole but still use ublock on my personal computer
I did recommend Pihole in my original reply. But there’s no way to block Youtube ads using it, as was being asked in the reply to my original reply.
Ah my bad mate, I didn’t notice you were the same person and the way you wrote your reply made me think you misunderstood the advantages of each and we’re recommending to use ublock only
I have started installing it when setting up new workstations at work.
You can’t do that with Pihole as the ads come from the same domains, and basically need a browser extension or an app with a built in equivalent.
If you’re in the UK though, it does block the ads on All4 which was a nice surprise. It even works for the TV app.
Also blocks all the ads on itvx which was another pleasant surprise
I am in the UK and that’s really useful to know. Thanks
YouTube ads don’t come from a separate server. They come in the same way as the video. They pretty much need to be filtered out at the player end (e.g. browser plugins).
Pihole blocks ad domains. YouTube ads are still from youtube.com, so you have to block them on the browser level with something like Ublock Origin
You can block ads on your computer with basically any browser plugin adblocker.
If your phone is Android, using an app called ReVanced, which is a modified version of the official YouTube app that essentially gives you all the Premium features (including adblocking and picture-in-picture) for free. You can even sign in with your Google account and interact with playlists, comments, etc.
It has to be side-loaded, of course, since Google wouldn’t allow that in the Play Store.
Use firefox with uBlock Origin to get rid of YouTube ads.