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YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog (adguard.com)
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[–] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So AdGuard works on the YouTube website. I haven't been there for some time - I use 2 other methods to watch YouTube ad-free.

  1. Newpipe - Android app that works by parsing the website, will probably be affected?
  2. YouTube Kodi add-on - works with Google YouTube API, I was wondering when this loophole is going to be plugged..

Anyone with knowledge of the matter care to comment? So far my YouTube watching is still ad-free.

I also run pi-hole in front of my WiFi. Nothing gets through. Or will it?

I noticed some podcasts these days have random server injected ads - usually the same ad repeated 2 or 3 times, is this going to be my video stream soon?

[–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If ads are injected server-side like the article is taking about, your downloads in Newpipe and Kodi are going to have the ads in them.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

use ublock origin, so far it's been pretty much problem free.

Outside of this, use something like yt-dlp to run your own jellyfin instance or something.

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Pihole will not work because it works on the DNS queries. With server side injection it’s gonna be tougher to block ads, but I’m sure we’ll find a way

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Nothing gets through. Or will it?

You would have to block the video itself to get rid of them