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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How do you use Pihole to block YouTube ads?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You can't. I have no idea what this person is talking about.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Block youtube.com. Quite effective, if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

all these people missing the part where I said "holding a shotgun" -- I guarantee you'll never see a YouTube ad on your network again if no data from their servers ever gets past your router. It's not a subtle or precise option, but it is highly effective. Much like a shotgun.

Then you can just use peertube, piped, or invidious when that gets fixed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Your comment was misleading though, as you can see from the replies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

explain the part where I misled anyone? Do you still get YouTube ads even after blocking YouTube's servers? I'd be interested to see that, if so. Otherwise, I forgive your stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

And I forgive your rudeness. That was uncalled for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Invidious is currently out of order. Not sure if they would be able to cut out the ads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

never underestimate the tenacity and ingenuity of spiteful pirates. It's been a while since I last used invidious, but I can't imagine it being permanently broken. in the meantime -- Piped, then?

If things get real stupid, we might have to employ AI to identify and strip ads from videos before mirroring. edit: Someone has, in fact, already trained an AI to identify ads in a video, with apparently 97.4% accuracy. So, the hard part's already been done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Newpipe works on Android and Freetube works on Linux. I guess a local invidious instance works, too. But then, you'd lose pooling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There has been some back and forth between Goolag's countermeasures and Invidious' countermeasures before arriving at the current situation, Invidious seemingly having lost the battle.

From their git issue tracker:

Hello,

Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality.

Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won't work anymore. (Some datacenter IPs may still work, but that's a matter of time until they don't anymore.) ... This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can still self-host Invidious. I'm doing this for 1-2 weeks without any problems. What does not work: Public instances hosted in data centers, because YouTube blocked lots of cloud IPs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Because I frequently use mpv, yt-dlp or a combination of both, the value I find in Invidious is in being able to conduct video searches against Youtube. And luckily that still works on public instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Piped wasn't working earlier.