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.
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.
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.
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?
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.