• @clonedhuman@lemmy.world
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    164 months ago

    I can’t tolerate ads any longer. Ublock Origin + Privacy Badger plugins in my browser assure me that I’ll almost never see ads on any of my systems. I just plug a laptop into my TV and stream from pirate sites.

    I just can’t tolerate any more loud, invasive, manipulative garbage being forced into my eyeballs by every single screen. You can’t even buy your way out of ads on streaming services now. Everything is an advertisement.

  • 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

  • venotic
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    34 months ago

    HDMI Cable + Dumb TV + Computer with adblockers = ad-free streaming.

  • @xia@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 months ago

    I recall from the only time I saw there eula, that the reserve the “right” to show you ads. I still remember when they chose to allocate half the screen for constant ads.

    • Fair Fairy
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      21 month ago

      Does anyone sell android TV with lineage os and preloaded projectivity launcher?