Local AdBlock (UBlock Origin) should be fine for anything browser based. It’s really only consoles and smart TVs, where you ‘own’ the hardware but have no control over the software.
If ads are served on a separate domain, then pihole blockers still work on consoles/smart TVs
But mostly all ad-supported video streaming services realized that if they serve ads from ads.example.com and content from content.example.com, then it’s trivial to have an adfree experience by just blocking ads.example.com.
So, YouTube ads URLs are made to be indistinguishable from YouTube video URLs from just watching network traffic, or in Pluto tv the ads are directly embedded in the stream
Dagnet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I always wondered but, do pi-holes work on consoles/smart TVs?
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
They should for most purposes. YT has started to try and make it much harder to block their ads, which I think has made Pihole ineffective for that.
Connecting the Pi up to the TV and using it as the player should be an option.
Dagnet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wouldnt buy a pi for that tho, but if it could make all youtube in my house ad free it wouldve been awesome, sad
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Local AdBlock (UBlock Origin) should be fine for anything browser based. It’s really only consoles and smart TVs, where you ‘own’ the hardware but have no control over the software.
moody@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Pihole works network-wide.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 10 months ago
If ads are served on a separate domain, then pihole blockers still work on consoles/smart TVs
But mostly all ad-supported video streaming services realized that if they serve ads from ads.example.com and content from content.example.com, then it’s trivial to have an adfree experience by just blocking ads.example.com.
So, YouTube ads URLs are made to be indistinguishable from YouTube video URLs from just watching network traffic, or in Pluto tv the ads are directly embedded in the stream
Dagnet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
too bad