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[–] drwho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[–] drwho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think you're missing a blocklist or two if you're still getting YT ads. Hasn't been a thing for us for at least four years now.

[–] drwho@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a couple of blocklists loaded into the family Pi-Hole:

  • Steven Black's master list
  • Ad-Wars
  • Ad Away
  • hostsVN
  • yoyo.org's dynamic list

That seems to have knocked out maybe 94% of the ads we'd otherwise see. I can't speak for the rest of the famiy, but I still use uBlock Origin for Firefox to handle Youtube ads.

My strategy for the medium to long term is this: Given that browser-based adblocking is more and more likely to be killed off, or at least badly nerfed, I'm pushing adblocking out to the Pi-Hole and will leave streaming service ad blocking in the browser for as long as possible. If and when that eventually goes away I already have a bot running and used somewhat heavily to download video streams to view with Kodi or VLC.

[–] drwho@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the link. I didn't know about this. Added to my collection of resources!

[–] drwho@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Acceptable? How about necessary for most students. Books for a semester should not cost more than living on campus and a meal plan.

[–] drwho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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