Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole

Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by bberrry on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:21PM (#23074060)

I wish it were more effective in removing Youtube ads on my kids' iPads, but I understand it's a tall order. At least it gets rid of ads in most other apps.

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by jbaber on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:07PM (#23074431)

I pay google the $10/mo. for no ads on youtubeso the kids don't get exposed.

The extra benefits are - play video with the screen off to listen to lectures - youtube music - specifically good for letting the toddler hear the wiggles without having to watch a wiggles video on youtube

I also pay hulu for no ads. I'm happy for the opportunity to pay directly for entertainment instead of with my eyeballs. No way to opt out of tracking, though, hence the pihole.

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by brchn on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:21PM (#23074952)

> specifically good for letting the toddler hear the wiggles without having to watch a wiggles video on youtube

I like how you phrased this as a solved engineering problem.

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by BuckRogers on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:59PM (#23074369)

Try Microsoft Edge. Its built in ad blocker works for me with Youtube on my iPhone.

I block ads at the application layer, DNS based ad blocking doesn’t really do it anymore and can create another troubleshooting surface to consider when it breaks something.

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by frank2 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:36PM (#23082570)

In response to your comment, I tested Microsoft Edge on my iPad and can confirm that yes, indeed, it does block the ads on youtube.com

-- mostly: out of about 7 videos, an ad was shown to me at the start of one of them, but that is much better than mobile Safari, on which and ad is shown to me at the start of every video I start.

Thanks for the tip.

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by christian_fei on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:45PM (#23074256)

could be the right fit: https://github.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by bberrry on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:50PM (#23074310)

Thank you! I'll give it a try

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by christian_fei on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:09PM (#23074451)

cheers, gotta try it too

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by netsharc on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:30PM (#23074128)

If you had said Android I would've suggested NewPipe: https://newpipe.schabi.org/

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by katsura on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:53PM (#23074774)

I've been using Lockdown[0] on my iPhone. It blocks everything for me, and is open source.

[0] https://lockdownhq.com/

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by christian_fei on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:57PM (#23074804)

Have to try this too

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Re:Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole by rataata_jr on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:41AM (#23078946)

Firefox + AdblockPlus?

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