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Re:As YouTube Declares War on Ad Blockers, Google Sponsors A... by defrost on Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:40AM (#38138492)
What happens if you set your Apple TV hosting device to use Ad Guard DNS, or your local LAN router to use the same?

https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

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Re:As YouTube Declares War on Ad Blockers, Google Sponsors A... by Moldoteck on Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:53AM (#38138544)
Will not work, yt is sending requests through https. The only way, as I saw recently would be a script that decodes https and Google's encoded objects and sets some flags to true, making yt believe you have premium or altering them in a way that will make the ad request invalid
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Re:As YouTube Declares War on Ad Blockers, Google Sponsors A... by predmijat on Saturday November 04, 2023 @06:13AM (#38139615)
It has nothing to do with HTTPS, it's just that ads are served from the same domain.
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Re:As YouTube Declares War on Ad Blockers, Google Sponsors A... by vinni2 on Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:55AM (#38138553)
DNS level blocking doesn’t work for YouTube as far as I know.
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