YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
  • zakharov@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    At least for me, and as far as I know, Pihole doesn’t block YouTube ads. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong because I’d love a network-level solution. Currently just have uBlock Origin for blocking YT ads.

    • krogers@beehaw.orgEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      uBlock Origin does a good job for me. On occasion, I will try watching YouTube on a platform where I don’t have it and I’m amazed how unwatchable it is. This reminds me to try to find alternate platforms for watching the creators I care about. Nebula is a good option for a lot of them, although it probably will never have the variety YouTube has. I haven’t tried PeerTube yet…I suspect I will run into the same issue.

      • SoftestVoid@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        The problem is that unlike a lot of other ads YouTube serves its ads from YouTube.com and because of SSL PiHole can only act on YouTube.com as a whole, so there’s no way to block just the ads without blocking all of the site.

      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I can confirm this - the content comes from the same DNS name as the ads, this means pihole cannot distinguish between them

        The solution then falls on something like ublock origin - sadly layers of ad blocking is needed in this day and age