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Same. I even have wireguard set up on my phone so my phone's internet connection is pihole-enabled wherever I am

by fron 5y ago

fortuna86 5y ago
Is there anyway to extend this to a chomecast so Youtube ads are blocked ?
- cmeacham98 5y ago
  YouTube ads cannot be blocked at the DNS level.
  - fortuna86 5y ago
    Dang. Any way to do so via a chromecast ?
    - mazamats 5y ago
      You could pay for YouTube Premium
      - fortuna86 5y ago
        I don't feel like rewarding a company for grabbing a monopoly on short form streaming video then making their service borderline unwatchable through aggressive, increasingly unskippable ads. Plus (getting back to the topic at hand), having adblock for all your devices is so ... pleasant. You forgot how jarring and upsetting (and LOUD) advertisements are. Having them puncture your DNS adblock while using Chromecast is like getting a wet slap in the face.
    - exikyut 5y ago
      I just tried googling "mitmproxy chromecast" and found a bit of a rabbithole of hacks and tweaks that can be done to Chromecasts to alter their behavior in ways they were definitely not intended for :) I expect there are probably umpteen different ways to block ads with a little digging, although I can't vouch for any as I don't have a Chromecast (or TV) myself. FWIW, a while back I reached my eye-twitch limit with Raid: Shadow Legends (deeply impressioning irritating ads: ...why...?), and so I stared at YouTube's load process to try and figure out if I could viably block everything. The technique I ended up using exploited the fact I was running within a Chrome extension and overloaded JSON.parse (lmao), and was specific to the HTML delivered for desktop, but has worked for months. I reckon it's quite possible the data sent to Chromecasts is similar enough that you could viably block it by MITMing the device then rewriting the JSON (or possibly gRPC) responses being sent to it. Using YouTube Vanced on a no-name Android TV stick might be an alternative. (Untested but should presumably/theoretically work.)

Same. I even have wireguard set up on my phone so my phone's internet connection is pihole-enabled wherever I am

by fron 5y ago

Same. I even have wireguard set up on my phone so my phone's internet connection is pihole-enabled wherever I am

fortuna86 5y ago

Is there anyway to extend this to a chomecast so Youtube ads are blocked ?

cmeacham98 5y ago
YouTube ads cannot be blocked at the DNS level.
- fortuna86 5y ago
  Dang. Any way to do so via a chromecast ?
  - mazamats 5y ago
    You could pay for YouTube Premium
    - fortuna86 5y ago
      I don't feel like rewarding a company for grabbing a monopoly on short form streaming video then making their service borderline unwatchable through aggressive, increasingly unskippable ads. Plus (getting back to the topic at hand), having adblock for all your devices is so ... pleasant. You forgot how jarring and upsetting (and LOUD) advertisements are. Having them puncture your DNS adblock while using Chromecast is like getting a wet slap in the face.
  - exikyut 5y ago
    I just tried googling "mitmproxy chromecast" and found a bit of a rabbithole of hacks and tweaks that can be done to Chromecasts to alter their behavior in ways they were definitely not intended for :) I expect there are probably umpteen different ways to block ads with a little digging, although I can't vouch for any as I don't have a Chromecast (or TV) myself. FWIW, a while back I reached my eye-twitch limit with Raid: Shadow Legends (deeply impressioning irritating ads: ...why...?), and so I stared at YouTube's load process to try and figure out if I could viably block everything. The technique I ended up using exploited the fact I was running within a Chrome extension and overloaded JSON.parse (lmao), and was specific to the HTML delivered for desktop, but has worked for months. I reckon it's quite possible the data sent to Chromecasts is similar enough that you could viably block it by MITMing the device then rewriting the JSON (or possibly gRPC) responses being sent to it. Using YouTube Vanced on a no-name Android TV stick might be an alternative. (Untested but should presumably/theoretically work.)