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I see ads when watching YouTube on my TV, since I have been too lazy to set up a pi hole so far. To be honest, I don't even mind it that much. At least I have
by yreg 3y ago
I see ads when watching YouTube on my TV, since I have been too lazy to set up a pi hole so far.
To be honest, I don't even mind it that much. At least I have some contact with what's going on out there in the ad space. But I watch 90+% of YT videos on other devices, not the TV.
- solarkraft 3y agoI recently accidentally opened a video in an incognito tab. I was angry after the 2 unskippable ads, but endured them. When, after a second of skipping through the video another 2 unskippable ads appeared I immediately switched back to my normal browser with uBlock Origin. What a joke. That stuff is unusable. I don't really use Youtube on my iPhone anymore because I know that any immediate gratification I could get from clicking on a video won't happen because of the ads. It's been very healthy for me in that way. I don't have a Pihole because they seem to be cracking down on it. When I want to watch Youtube videos on the TV, I mirror my Laptop's screen. I'm not even generally opposed to buying Youtube Premium either, the pricing is just off. And the tactics are just so scummy.
- acjacobson 3y agoJust FYI - Pihole won't block video ads on Youtube on your TV because it is limited to DNS blocking. Youtube is structured such that blocking the necessary domains would block all of Youtube.