Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by 7ewis on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:05PM (#13860570)

I believe Pi Hole have tried to block YouTube Ads but Google randomise the domains they serve those ads from, and also from what I have read, they also serve some fundamental features via those domains too. So if you kill the ads, you kill YouTube.

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by ashark on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:45PM (#13861628)

Could youtube-dl the video then redirect the browser to a locally-served (locally from the pi-hole device, that is) page embedding the video, provided you've got the disk space to cache it and don't mind waiting a bit for the video to download (admittedly a lot of caveats here, but could work for many people). That'd actually be a better experience for most sites youtube-dl supports, I'd think, not just Youtube.

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by dghughes on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:26PM (#13862012)

I used a PiHole for a while and when using it YouTube had no ads at all zero ads but I wasn't sure if it was the Samsung TV YouTube app or Google.

Before that I would be bombarded by ads for every video and then in the middle of any video that ran more than 30 minutes.

I don't mind a few ads I get the concept but 95% of the ads were just two companies Wix and Grammarly over and over.

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by majewsky on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:14PM (#13862977)

Youtube ads can be blocked when you whitelist domains. I never see Youtube ads in my uMatrix-equipped browsers with a whitelist of:

  youtube.com apis.google.com script allow
  youtube.com googlevideo.com * allow
  youtube.com gstatic.com * allow
  youtube.com s.ytimg.com script allow
  youtube.com ytimg.com * allow

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