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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable (blog.google)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 20 points 6 months ago (6 children)

pihole hasn't worked for years to block youtube ads, no?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You’re correct. Pihole works at the DNS level. Since YouTube hosts their ads on the same servers that host their videos, blocking the ads with DNS would also block the videos. Which I guess it technically works to block YT ads, but that’s a little like saying “set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    What, it works for me? Put on an 8 hour video while doing chores and had ads every 5 minutes. Filled with rage I installed pihole and no more ads.

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