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Why can't you block them?

• geerlingguy 5y ago
  Presumably 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 ago
    I 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 ago
      I'm running one and it makes no difference.
    • herbst 5y ago
      Most ads are loaded as 'normal posts' I tried but pi-hole is not the solution here.
  • sydthrowaway 5y ago
    Yep, the explore page always turns up some barely clad women.
• CptFribble 5y ago
  Some 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 ago
    Yeah, 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 ago
      and thats why i use firefox nightly for android.
  • NavinF 5y ago
    Pihole has been useless on desktop for quite a while now. uBlock Origin still works on YouTube as well as it did 7 years ago