This is the case.

Yeah I set up a pihole a while back and abandoned it because I couldn't get it to block YouTube ads.

You're 100% correct. PiHole is a DNS adblocker so, essentially, it's only able to block whole domains. My understanding is Google puts YouTube ads behind the YouTube domain so if the PiHole blocked YouTube ads, it would block the entire YouTube website which defeats the purpose.

It's been awhile since I looked, but when I did a few years ago they had hundreds of subdomains for their videos (both regular and ads) and would rotate what they're used for all the time. That's why its basically impossible for PiHole to anything.

Youtube-dl (well, yt-dlp, the non-dead version) will ignore the ads.

yeah but how do you setup a one-stop-shop solution to download the new videos from channels you follow?

I'd recommend a Python script on a cron/task scheduler job.

Personally, I use Tubearchivist.

There are others though.

https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

> For minimal system requirements, the Tube Archivist stack needs around 2GB of available memory for a small testing setup and around 4GB of available memory for a mid to large sized installation. Minimal with dual core with 4 threads, better quad core plus. This project requires docker. Ensure it is installed and running on your system.

What the hell. Is this an entire OS?

Its an archive solution.

So it uses redis and elastic search in the backend.

It definitely isnt lightweight, but I like its interface the best out of all solutions.

How can a 'small testing setup' for an 'archive solution' be double the size of Windows 8.1...

Consider freetube for a braindead simple mechanism. Alternatively, I believe MPV can suit your needs with some more elbow grease.

I add all videos that I want to watch to a playlist and then run a script on my machine to download the videos. It will only download each video once as it keep tracks of downloaded videos through the file downloaded.txt so you can delete/move them freely. You can also add the script to a systemd timer or cron so to automate it.

This is the script: https://github.com/danisztls/yt-assistant. AFAIK the same can be done with a single line yt-dlp command and you can do the same to download all videos from a channel.

Paramount+ on apple tv just crashes immediately for me (before even the profile picker) when I have the apple tv using my pi-hole as its dns server.

It’s not even the biggest reason why PP is my least favorite streaming platform, since I have a workaround (cast from phone, which for some reason works).

I’m amazed some people would even consider subscribing to Paramount+… why? It’s yet another streaming platform ; arriving way too late in the game, and they don’t even have an interesting catalog. They just seem dead on arriving.

Trek. That's it.

Piracy. It's way simpler.

Viacom has a huge back catalog. Nickelodeon. Great alternative to Disney+ if the kids chews through it. It’s also just CBS All Access renamed, it’s not really late at all. It’s been around for a decade.