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.
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.
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