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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A DNS blocking system like Pihole can block ads on platforms you don't control, like smart TVs or mobile apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was told YouTube is excluded from said benefit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes the way YT loads ads it won't work to simply block them with a simple DNS pattern match, you need a proper adblocker or third party app. But you can block all the other nuisance clutter on the smart TV, at least.

My TV is hooked to my PC now as a monitor, so I just watch YT on it right in Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

For smart tv there is smarttuve, its complete replacement of youtube and acts like youtube revsnced or youtube with ublocknon pc.teybit out