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Advice on blocking Youtube ads. (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by Zadhu@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello scurvy dogs

Im looking for some advice on how I should go about continuing to watch youtube while blocking / bypassing ads on my LG TV.

I recently ended my premium subscription because of price hikes and such but webOS on LG TVs is very restrictive with its apps.

Ive started to use LibreTube on my devices which is awsome but ive only got a couple of options that might work on the telly:

1- I host a local Jellyfin server for all our other content needs so maybe i can integrate youtube into this somehow.

2- Ive got a spare Pi 3b laying around that I could use as something and just HDMI to the TV which im fine with.

Currently I think that maybe running android on the Pi and then using LibreTube on that is my best option.

So my question is, what do you guys use / what are your setups to watch youtube ad free on ya TV?

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[-] magikmw@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

I've been running pihole with several blocklists forever and I never see any ads.

[-] stifle867@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

Last time I had a pi-hole running it didn't effect YouTube ads and was known not to as pi-hole works at the DNS layer but YouTube ads are served from the same DNS endpoint.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yup. Blocking ads with a pihole would also block the videos. Which kind of defeats the purpose.

[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Also the App could trivially bypass your local DNS and use its own. Even if you blocked port 53 in an attempt to prevent this it would be useless if the app used DNS over HTTPS.

I love PiHole for ad blocking, but against this it is ineffective.