Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative

Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by godelski on Thursday April 17, 2025 @02:54AM (#43713851)

DNS blockers aren't good enough to block all ads. Especially YouTube. Plus, many browsers will ignore DNS without configuration and same for phone apps. While this can be fine for me it's not for everyone else in my family nor guests. And that's before we talk about Apple...

If anyone has a solution I'd love to learn.

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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by volteret4 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @05:45AM (#43714712)

I use Invidious whitout a a hassle, and firefox with ublock when I can not.

For android there is New Pipe and some forks.

I prefer to pay my yt loved channels than ser a fucking add

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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by godelski on Thursday April 17, 2025 @12:49PM (#43719363)

You misunderstand the goal.

  > to block all ads on your home network?

That. That is the problem we're looking at.

I already use Firefox on /my computer/. We were talking about a pihole or some /network/ solution. How do I block ads on my friends computer when they get into my network without touching their computer? How do I block ads on my TV? You'd have to do something like deep packet inspection. Devices I fully control I can trivially solve this but there are plenty of devices I don't, including ones I own.

And for Android, you know you can use revanced, right? You can recompile the app and others to get more control

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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by steine65 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @06:44PM (#43723028)

If you have a tv with WebOS there is an ad-removed youtube app you can load. Doesn't solve your friend's problem but might solve part of the problem.

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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by godelski on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:46PM (#43723808)

I don't. Sure, I can root my TV and certainly there's exploits for that. But honestly that example isn't the problem and is much more easily solved by treating my TV as a monitor.

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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by thaumasiotes on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:10AM (#43715179)

Ublock Origin is sufficient to block all ads on youtube.

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Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative by godelski on Thursday April 17, 2025 @12:51PM (#43719396)

You're misunderstanding the problem.

We were talking DNS blockers. The context matters. I already use ublock but I can't do ublock on my pihole. I can't do it on an iPhone (I can use orion browser but YouTube quality is low). I can't do it on my TV. I can't do it on my friends computer that visits my house. And so on. I appreciate you trying to help but you're misunderstanding the problem and honestly I don't know how someone could be on HN and not know about ublock.

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