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I believe Pi Hole have tried to block YouTube Ads but Google randomise the domains they serve those ads from, and also from what I have read, they also serve so
by 7ewis 10y ago
I believe Pi Hole have tried to block YouTube Ads but Google randomise the domains they serve those ads from, and also from what I have read, they also serve some fundamental features via those domains too. So if you kill the ads, you kill YouTube.
- ashark 10y agoCould youtube-dl the video then redirect the browser to a locally-served (locally from the pi-hole device, that is) page embedding the video, provided you've got the disk space to cache it and don't mind waiting a bit for the video to download (admittedly a lot of caveats here, but could work for many people). That'd actually be a better experience for most sites youtube-dl supports, I'd think, not just Youtube.
- dghughes 10y agoI used a PiHole for a while and when using it YouTube had no ads at all zero ads but I wasn't sure if it was the Samsung TV YouTube app or Google. Before that I would be bombarded by ads for every video and then in the middle of any video that ran more than 30 minutes. I don't mind a few ads I get the concept but 95% of the ads were just two companies Wix and Grammarly over and over.
- majewsky 10y agoYoutube ads can be blocked when you whitelist domains. I never see Youtube ads in my uMatrix-equipped browsers with a whitelist of: youtube.com apis.google.com script allow youtube.com googlevideo.com * allow youtube.com gstatic.com * allow youtube.com s.ytimg.com script allow youtube.com ytimg.com * allow