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[–] Bowen 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My first thought was "what if there's a service outage and I can't load advertising content from their CDN?" It's very clearly a different location because otherwise ublock would block actual content.

If they don't do that and just check for things like ublock client side, guess my decision to put pi hole on my network was smart.

[–] snowbell 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pihole doesn't work with youtube ads though, unless I missed something?

[–] rwhitisissle 1 points 1 year ago

It works inconsistently and shittily, often blocking videos as well as ads. The best solution is something like umatrix that scans the page, identifies ads, and filters those.

[–] rwhitisissle 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can't block youtube advertisements with pihole. At least not reliably, and at least not "in video" ads. It's hitting a moving target, and probably not worth the effort. You also will probably be able to block some small chunk of them, but far from all youtube ads. And even then, they'll eventually just change it so that if you try, it'll break your access to youtube videos, too. Of course, the current pihole regex to block ads also already blocks some videos, too, anyway.