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Panel 3: PiHole + uBlock Origin
Panel 4: PiHole + uBlock Origin and recurring donations to pay creators
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Pi-hole won’t block Youtube ads. uBlock Origin does.
Is there any router side solutions for YouTube adds? I want to block for my family, but they don’t see the point.
Nope. Youtube ads are served from the same domains as the videos so there is nothing you can to to block them via DNS. Your best bet is just installing Ublock for them. Now a days an ad blocker is a security necessity anyways.
Installing uBlock is so quick, all you need is 30 seconds of their consent to lean over their shoulder and install it. The whole process can be faster than the actual ad break, in some cases.
Doesn’t really work for all “embedded” devices, though. Phones, consoles, sticks, etc. all come with their own apps and there’s unfortunately not always a reasonable way to install solutions there.
for phones you can use firefox to get ublock on mobile and youtube revanced for an ad-free youtube app :)
Ublock on roku when?
When you stop using roku and just plug in a cheap used laptop or something instead
Thats about to happen, I’m just going to miss the tv remote user interface
You have to set up a proxy.
Even for those who are technical enough to set up a pihole, it’s annoying to set up a proxy and some apps simply won’t work with it.
I would love to learn how to block YouTube ads with a proxy. Do you have a link to instructions?
Not sure if these instructions work. First result from Google.
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Pihole and uBlock Origin have different purposes. Pihole blocks ad domains network-wide. uBlock Origin can remove specific elements from specific webpages with surgical precision regardless of the domain the content is served from, so it is a much more precise wide-spectrum content blocker.
In other words, uBlock Origin can block basically everything, but only works in your browser. Pihole blocks fewer things and less precisely but works for all your devices.
Creators put up blinking pop-up windows asking for more donations
Fuck…
Watch better creators that don’t use their fans as a bank account
pfsense with blockerng anyone?
This sounds like something I should look into. I already run pfsense and wanted to look into a pihole, but if I can do it all in pfsense that’ll work out even better. Thanks!
There are a lot of public DNS that do the stuff pihole does.
I’ve considered that too, but thanks for the reminder!
I’d recommend it, not very hard to setup and there’s tons of guides online if you need help
PiHole doesn’t work with VPNs, does it?
Yes, its a DNS server. You can set up your device to use whatever DNS server you choose, including pihole.
I’ve got my VPN connected with pihole as the default DNS server so it works on my phone when I’m not at home.
No because VPNs route your traffic through an encrypted tunnel. But PiHole can filter traffic on any device on your network regardless of whether or not you can install a plugin.
Yep it does, most VPN software lets you configure the DNS server to be your pihole.
If you care about the privacy of your DNS requests, tunnel the pihole through a VPN too
ADS?
Ads, as in the stuff that is blocked by ublock and pihole.
Damm i read ABP … and was confused. Yeh sure ads are smoll brain! (Same as ABP)
Adding to the existing comments, there is also invidious which doesn’t bombard you with adds and if you have a homeserver you can easily host an instance (acts like a frontend to youtube)
Does anyone have a link for how to set up a pihole that a dumb dumb like me could understand?
If you are not so fit in this questions is better to install Portmaster, its downloading and run it, not much more to do (blocking or give permissions to connecting to the network to your apps. Maybe sellecting an DNS which fits your needs in the settings. It’s way easier to handle than Pi Hole. It even has an SPN (its like a VPN on steroids), but its an paid option.
May you recover from your stroke quickly.
I wonder what number of cents a month is more than what content creators get from youtube or their other sites (sans donation platforms like Patreon).
It could be interesting to set aside like $5 a month to have dividends of that go out to people you actively utilize.
Pihole is a great project, but it is objectively less capable than uBlock Origin.
That is not a criticism of the software. It is just a fundamental fact that DNS based adblockers are less powerful, and less granular/precise than Browser based adblockers.
They do work well in combination though (the DNS level adblockers gives you moderately effective network wide blocking, and uBlock Origin gives you exceptional blocking but is limited to the browser.
Or simply use AdGuard DNS
IMO NextDNS is a better solution if you don’t wanna roll your own pihole
If the router provided by my isp won’t allow me to change the dns server, is there a workaround for having to set the local dns server on each device that doesn’t involve getting a new router?
Use the pi or whatever little computer that’s presumably hosting the pi-hole software to also be a DHCP server (and turn off the DHCP server on ISP’s router). It can then advertise itself as the DNS server.
That’s a great idea! I will try it tomorrow, thank you.
Edit: Worked nicely :)
