Nice try, Youtube dev. Better luck next time.
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DNS blocking is the most unreliable way of blocking youtube ads you can imagine.
you could write a script to OCR your entire screen and click skip ad and it'd be more reliable than DNS blocking
I don't think that works on my Samsung TV, or my partners iPad though. :)
Although not especially effective on the YouTube front, it actually increases network security just by blocking api access to ad networks on those kinds of IoT and walled garden devices. Ironically my partner loves it not for YouTube but apparently all her Chinese drama streaming websites. So when we go travel and she's subjected to those ads she's much more frustrated than when she's at home lol.
So the little joke while not strictly true, is pretty true just if you just say 'streaming content provider'.
I've had good luck with iSponsorBlockTV [1] for skipping/muting ads on our LG TV Youtube app and has Samsung Tizen on their supported list.
For my iPhone I do a combination of self-hosted Piped [2] exposed through Tailscale [3] with Yattee [4]. Both Piped and Yattee work with Sponsorblock and can be customized to see 0 ads.
Tailscale is useful since your phone/ipad/piped are on the same Tailnet regardless of location and you can stream from anywhere there's an Internet connection.
You can also swap out components; eg Invidious instead of Piped or your own Wireguard setup instead of Tailscale.
Oisd.nl
Something to keep in mind:
Avoid using mirrored consolidated lists, if possible; it deprives the original list maintainer of visits (meaning they may be less inclined to keep it up to date!) https://firebog.net/
This is the GOAT 🐐
Absolutely agree
Same! Which version do you use? Small or big?
Big.
Did not know about this one! Just added it to my pi hole instance. Thank you!
It depends a bit on what you want to accomplish, the threat model, the devices in use, and other topics. I think this is a good read: https://avoidthehack.com/best-pihole-blocklists
Some specific social blocklists: https://github.com/d43m0nhLInt3r/socialblocklists
I am using the most important one for germans... Springerblocker
Some of my other lists
And many more
Those are mine:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/master/spammers.txt
https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vokins/yhosts/master/hosts
https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RooneyMcNibNug/pihole-stuff/master/SNAFU.txt
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Admiral.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/adservers.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/UncheckyAds/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigdargon/hostsVN/master/hosts
https://owenthe.dev/fortnite.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts
And my very own: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Appoxo/Ad-List/master/hosts.txt
Loving that you straight up block Halo servers.
Need that for the regional search to work...Otherwise it liked to put me in US servers with a 120 ping :|
I use the following lists:
spoiler
- StevenBlack hosts
- WindowsSpyBlocker
- WindowsSpyBlocker - ipv6
- Easyprivacy
- Easylist
- adaway
- firstparty-trackers
- d3host
- w3kbl
- Facebook - non regex
- Peter Lowe Hosts
I also ensure that I have ublock origin on everything I can put it on. I'm sure the default lists are fine for pihole (I just like tinkering with things), but I recommend https://firebog.net/ for finding more lists if you so desire
I've been quite happy after recently switching to Hagezi
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IoT | Internet of Things for device controllers |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
2 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.
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