Re:Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
by anthropodie on Sunday May 29, 2022 @02:26PM
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PiHole works by blocking domains. Few years ago it was like youtube.com served videos and ad.youtube.com (just an example) served ads.
Back then you could simply block ad.youtube.com and there would be no ads but today Google is serving ads via their main domain. You can't block ads unless you block youtube.com.
So now no DNS based adblocker can block YouTube ads. uBlock is the only option which works inside browser only.
Back then you could simply block ad.youtube.com and there would be no ads but today Google is serving ads via their main domain. You can't block ads unless you block youtube.com.
So now no DNS based adblocker can block YouTube ads. uBlock is the only option which works inside browser only.