• @[email protected]
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    -209 months ago

    Changing your router DNS to something that blocks ads (or a pihole at home) and you’ll never have to watch ads ever again, YouTube or elsewhere

    • @ylph
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      319 months ago

      YouTube video ads can’t be blocked with just DNS blocking unfortunately, they are served from the same hosts as YouTube videos.

    • @lorkano
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      59 months ago

      This doesn’t work for many types of ads

    • guajojo
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      59 months ago

      Of course this is possible but this involves more than just pihole. I’m running this with a combo of adaway + mikrotik router with port based NATing.

      People downvoting you are like the angrycry meme about the low to high IQ gauge.

    • @SendMePhotos
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      39 months ago

      Does a network pihole block YouTube ads?

      • verysoft
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        9 months ago

        Not anymore, it used to. Pihole can only block ads that are served from known ad servers. But with the way ads are served on YT, it can’t block them without also blocking the entire video.

        My pi hole currently blocks around 10% of all the requests made on my network. So its still worthwhile for cutting down on some ads and tracking.