• NegativeNull
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    4 months ago

    Pihole/adguard filter rule:

    (ads|logs|cloudservices|image|images|web|prod.mobile|wwwimg|captive|customer-feedbacks|amoeba|amoeba2|sr|giga.sb|cs).roku(.admeasurement)*.com$

    • hotspur
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      24 months ago

      Do you know if there’s a way for me to add something to my Pihole that would interfere with YouTube ads on the app on Xbox? I’ve been using wireless screen cast to use a laptop lately because the ad frequency has gotten so intense on the Xbox and iOS apps. Guessing it’s somehow being included online to the video streaming and I can’t use a browser/unlockorigin in the console so maybe there is nothing to be done, haha.

      • NegativeNull
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        44 months ago

        Youtube is always problematic as the ads are served from the same domain as the videos themselves. That means that DNS blocking doesn’t work. I have the same issue with a chromecast+youtube. I have no good solution there.

        • hotspur
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          24 months ago

          Yeah I kinda figured, thanks for replying though. I have an acceptable workaround, but man, once you get used to no ads, it feels like a blizzard of insurance and other crap ads once you use one of the apps not in a computer. It’s actually what’s got me slowly rebuilding an old surface pro with Linux surface—because I enjoy YouTube on tablets, but basically can’t stand the iOS apps anymore haha.

          • NegativeNull
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            14 months ago

            I have a wireguard VPN setup into my house so that when I’m away from home, I can still get DNS based ad-blocking.

            Ads are violence

      • Fair Fairy
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        1 month ago

        I install smarttubenext app on android TV - it’s a YouTube without ads.

        And revanced on a phone. Or just YouTube on Firefox with ublock on a phone