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Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder (www.theregister.com)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 5 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Is there a way to block youtube ads on the tv? I have an android tv and using the youtube app is painfull... :-(

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[+] TheBat@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

This is the solution. I've been using it for a couple of years, no ads, and almost no segways either.

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[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 3 points 9 months ago

this + remapping the remote youtube button seems to be the solution.

Thanks!

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

pi-hole may be what you're gunning for.

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[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

That's via DNS, right? If so i don't think it will work, i'm using https://nextdns.io/ with lots of block lists and it doesn't work.

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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

Depends on your implementation. It does need some tweaking and using the logs to add more crap to the block list.

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[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

I don't think so, since YouTube runs their ads from the same servers as the videos. You need to use an alternate front end that doesn't serve ads to begin with. One thing I used to do too was run a VPN on my router in Japan, so I would get Japanese ads instead. There were way fewer ads, I would have no idea what they were advertising, and the few ads I would get were way more entertaining.

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[–] deleted@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

You need firefox with ublock.

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