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You should consider yourself lucky if you use adblocker and YouTube is still playing videos for you (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1144758/you-should-consider-yourself-lucky-if-you-use-adblocker-and-youtube-is-still-playing-vid

You should consider yourself lucky if you use adblocker and YouTube is still playing videos for you
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I honestly don’t know what I’m doing right, just typical stuff I’d think.

I have a pihole as my dns/dhcp. I use Firefox with enhanced tracking protection turned on, ublock origin and privacy badger.

On my phone I have AdGuard (paid one time license fee).

I still am seeing YouTube without ads. I occasionally have to reload a video, but no showstoppers yet. Only posting my setup in case it help anyone else. Hopefully it’s not instructions for them on what to attack next..

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Im not sure id consider running a pihole as "typical". Maybe among Lemmy, but not most of the (youtube*) users. Everything besides the pihole is basically my setup with the addition of always using a vpn. I don't see ads but get the occasional stuck loading thing and have to refresh.

    *edit forgot word.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, I’m sure my normal is not regular normal, I’m an old graybeard so my perspective is a bit off.

    But a pihole is super easy. Mine runs in a VM in Proxmox now, but I’ve run it on a raspberry pi and as a docker container as well. Well worth a shot.

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