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I made fuckOff.yt to make people feel better about this. Ublock or pihole are better solutions though

• L_226 5y ago
  FWIW I have a pihole running on my local, but my Samsung TV still shows YT ads because I cannot disable cdn.samsung.com or the TV will not work, and I think the ads are being served via this domain to my TV....
  • Kelteseth 5y ago
    Get yourself a Nvidia shield. It has no advertisement build in and even can turn on and off the host TV. Also, I would advise you to disconnect your smart TV entirely.
    • kzrdude 5y ago
      I just have an RPi 4. The protocol that can turn off and on the tv there is just called CEC and you can make simple scripts with cec-client to trigger it. (Kodi also already uses it.)
    • L_226 5y ago
      Interesting, I had not seen this.
    • croon 5y ago
      I have an Nvidia Shield, and ran PiHole for a bit. It didn't block youtube ads for me, but might be regional ranges not being blocked. Eventually I stopped using PiHole since it broke some payment processors at times, and there was no easy way for family members to temp disable it and it became unmanagable. Loved the concept though.
  • kzrdude 5y ago
    Connect your own media center. I use an RPi 4. It can play netflix and youtube in Kodi, for example. Admittedly there are many minor compat issues, of course.
    • L_226 5y ago
      Yup, will check this out thanks