I built one, but never finished setting it up. But, seeing as how there is now a hot war with YT ad blockers.... is a Pihole still worth setting up these days?
A pi-hole is incapable of blocking youtube ads embedded in videos as it blocks ads by blocking the domain their hosted from. To block youtube ads it would have to block youtube.com rendering the entire site unusable. If you want to block youtube ads ublock origin is your best option.
Unfortunately, now yt sees the use of an ad blocker (including ublock origin) and either forces viewers to subscribe ($15 per month - no!) or allow ads. If they don't, yt will block the device's access after 3 videos (per their pop ups).
I haven't seen a workaround for this, but I'll bet someone will come up with something.
The browser "Brave" works for me. It has built in ad-blocking and I don't get the popup and have played plenty of videos without ads without it it stopping me. Plus it's based on Chrome so you still get to use standard extensions.
Their ability to catch this is actually quite limited, and I haven't had issues on Brave at all yet.
Pi hole is still worth getting set up, as there are a LOT of uses for it despite the YouTube weak spot and apparently the community whitelists being somewhat retarded.
Is it on the default block list or a secondary list that you added in addition? This is important as it would determine if the pinhole maintainers blocked it, or a 3rd party's list blocked it.
Nice catch, fren.
I built one, but never finished setting it up. But, seeing as how there is now a hot war with YT ad blockers.... is a Pihole still worth setting up these days?
A pi-hole is incapable of blocking youtube ads embedded in videos as it blocks ads by blocking the domain their hosted from. To block youtube ads it would have to block youtube.com rendering the entire site unusable. If you want to block youtube ads ublock origin is your best option.
Nice workaround, albeit a bit manual. I guess fighting ads won't be quite as ezmode anymore lol.
Thanks to you, u/Dons_Johnson and u/gg102. I'll put my pihole back on the to-do list
You might want to add "bound". That's a DNS cache. Works well with Pi hole. Speeds up DNS if you go to a particular site often.
Yep, thank you, think it's "Unbound" - I run Quad9 currently, but would like to move DNS inhouse as much as possible
You're right. It's late and I should sleep.
Unfortunately, now yt sees the use of an ad blocker (including ublock origin) and either forces viewers to subscribe ($15 per month - no!) or allow ads. If they don't, yt will block the device's access after 3 videos (per their pop ups).
I haven't seen a workaround for this, but I'll bet someone will come up with something.
revanced
Thank you for this, u/RachelkillsBam!
I have never heard of revanced (or vanced for that matter). Unfortunately, it looks like this in only for android devices, correct?
Are you aware of anything with similar functionality that works for windows laptops?
The browser "Brave" works for me. It has built in ad-blocking and I don't get the popup and have played plenty of videos without ads without it it stopping me. Plus it's based on Chrome so you still get to use standard extensions.
Thank you! I will look into that.
Their ability to catch this is actually quite limited, and I haven't had issues on Brave at all yet.
Pi hole is still worth getting set up, as there are a LOT of uses for it despite the YouTube weak spot and apparently the community whitelists being somewhat retarded.
I use one, love it. Simple to setup and use.
I block tons of sites that my Android goes to all by itself.
Highly recommend it to EVERYONE.
The local school system blocks all the .win boards except Patriots. 👈 And that is because the name changed 2 years ago from "The Donald".
So I'm not sure if it's just a local thing or if the State Board of Education (or higher) has a predetermined "Hit List" to block.
Anyone have school or university network access that can check?
Is it on the default block list or a secondary list that you added in addition? This is important as it would determine if the pinhole maintainers blocked it, or a 3rd party's list blocked it.
If you are smart enough to run a pi-hole and cant get to this website you are certainly smart enough to whitelist it.
Try Lockdown (lockdownprivacy dot com) ad-blocking firewall is free, VPN is paid. YT hasn't blocked me yet.
My phone goes nuts when I go to that site.
I use a bunch of the popular giant lists on mine and can still reach that site. According to my dashboard I currently have 1,079,403 domains on block.
Which lists are you using?
It only does it if you use that filterlist.