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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by jb775 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:16AM (#23710509)
Are you able to block youtube ads using pi-hole?
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by moepstar on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:27AM (#23710557)
Sadly, not anymore - used to be the case quite a while ago, but not today anymore as the ads come from the same domains the videos are streamed from.

Those simpler popover-ads which can be closed clicking an X in the upper right corner still are blocked tho...

Spilling my secret tho (and YouTube execs hate me for it!): i block YouTube in my mind and only rarely go to it if i really need to watch a video (which, for me, is rarer than i ever thought it'd be).

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by dredmorbius on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:53AM (#23710657)
https://invidio.us

Or mpv (for single videos, or local playlists), or mps-youtube, or youtube-dl.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by mahaganapati on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:29AM (#23710563)
It's complicated and a quickly moving target. I use pi-hole plus local browser blocking like uBlock origin.
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