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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by vpx on Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:00PM (#19656304)
You can't block YouTube ads by blocking DNS queries, since they are served from the YouTube domain itself. Basically, you can't block them without blocking the entire site.
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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by Moru on Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:10PM (#19656362)
There are other ways of blocking YouTube ads that works great but needs an install on each device.
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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by fedorareis on Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:11PM (#19656365)
How does uBlock do it then? I always assumed it did blocking based on domain.
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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by smilespray on Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:36PM (#19656489)
It has access to and parses the web page and can as such do advanced pattern matching in various ways. Domain, subdirectory, file, you name it. It can also hide HTML elements known to contain ads in order to collapse the blank areas where the ads used to be.
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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by rohan1024 on Sunday April 14, 2019 @12:39AM (#19657638)
It's not only blocks banner ads but also the ads that appear inside videos. How does it figure out the video stream is of ad? Their must be some sort of marker to separate out video stream from ad stream.
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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by luxpir on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:35AM (#19658205)
From my experience uBlock origin has a feature set/list that can do this where the more advanced uMatrix cannot. I run both and hope to not have to in future. Also run pihole for other devices where custom blocking is tricky.
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