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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A PiHole can be a good solution for ads like that.

[–] Shake747@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah I have one set up - it's sorta meh.

Most ads from things you look at can be stopped by just an ad blocker plugin for the browser (uBlock Origin). The Pi can't stop ads when they come directly from the sever of the company you're viewing (like from YouTube or Facebook ads).

The Pi just has a library of known advertising domains and doesn't let those past the router, but because the major corps like YouTube don't use 3rd party domains, the Pi won't stop it.

For the TV scenario here id recommend just installing a new Linux based OS on it as this would be just as good as the streaming device, but free.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In my experience, it works a little better if you add some more third party blocklists and custom RegEx.

However, the main pain point is the first one you mentioned: if the ads come from the same server as the content, blocking the ads also blocks the content. So you do have to rely on other solutions to block ads of that nature.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Chiming in a bit further on this. Quite a few (Google) devices and apps have started using DNS over Https servers to circumvent things like pihole. Blocking known IP's on my firewall has helped effectiveness quite a bit.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Freetube changed my YT experience forever. Highly recommend it.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A lot more work than a $5 gadget with 5min setup time

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Definitely, but some of us just like networking and it doesn't feel so much like work.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

I was thinking of the kind of person who wants a starter solution tbh but I feel you