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The ads, like on YouTube, are getting unbearable. And this time you can’t even block them
by sydthrowaway 5y ago
The ads, like on YouTube, are getting unbearable. And this time you can’t even block them
- bscphil 5y agoWhy can't you block them?
- geerlingguy 5y agoPresumably using the app? The thing I hate most is if I click on search it starts autoplaying some random thing that has no relevance to my social circles, until I start typing my search query (usually just trying to find a friend or an account I already follow).
- bscphil 5y agoI generally assume that installing an app to use a website is voluntarily opting in to a worse experience, so you're probably right. Still, though, maybe a PiHole would be effective?
- geerlingguy 5y agoI'm running one and it makes no difference.
- herbst 5y agoMost ads are loaded as 'normal posts' I tried but pi-hole is not the solution here.
- sydthrowaway 5y agoYep, the explore page always turns up some barely clad women.
- CptFribble 5y agoSome time ago YT and other majors started serving ads from the same domains as content, so it's become much more difficult to reliably block them. https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/88vsz1/youtube_ad_domains/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/88vsz1/youtube_ad_d...
- bscphil 5y agoYeah, it's hard to imagine the pihole approach working for most ads in the long term. Fortunately, the traditional browser addon approach still works great.
- dannyw 5y agoand thats why i use firefox nightly for android.
- NavinF 5y agoPihole has been useless on desktop for quite a while now. uBlock Origin still works on YouTube as well as it did 7 years ago