• Drew Belloc@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    I believe you would need a pihole, is like a ad block but in the entire network, so you could even use the official youtube app on a tv and not get any ad

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      2 months ago

      I think they serve the ads from the same domain so DNS blocking wont work. And I heard they are testing baking the ads into the actual video.

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        2 months ago

        I was using the pihole from my pc back in the day and it did work, but i totally forget about the ad injection on the videos

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          Pihole hasn’t made any difference on devices like smart TVs and consoles for years, at least in my experience. It really sucks but they broke me and I bought premium family because we use YouTube a lot on non pc devices and I hate ads so much