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I haven’t heard about this, can you provide a link with more info? I ask because I run a simple local DNS recursor with a blacklist and I haven’t run into any i
by egwynn 8y ago
I haven’t heard about this, can you provide a link with more info? I ask because I run a simple local DNS recursor with a blacklist and I haven’t run into any issues with YouTube.
- feketegy 8y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/9w5swx/i_think_ive_managed_to_block_youtube_ads_with/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/9w5swx/i_think_ive_... The problem is that YouTube sends the ads on the same IPs that the video is streaming on. The hostnames are randomly generated based on user and also location so you can't use lists from other users who successfully blocked out adverts. If you block out all IPs the video won't load, also, if you successfully block out an IP that sends advertisements, the YouTube app will hang, because it tries to load the advert. In the past it just skipped if the IP wasn't reachable, now it's requesting in an infinite loop. I reached to a point when I tried to buy a YouTube Premium, just not to see the ads, but it's not available in my country. So f Google. Currently YouTube is unwatchable to me, it's worse than traditional TVs.
- gruez 8y ago>I reached to a point when I tried to buy a YouTube Premium, just not to see the ads, but it's not available in my country. So f Google ...or you know, whitelist youtube use a browser based adblocker instead?
- Synaesthesia 8y agoThis or discover the magic of youtube-dl. Of course I think OP aid having these issues on mobile. But I will add I don’t get ads using safari to watch YouTube on my iPhone with ad blockers installed.