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Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder (www.theregister.com)
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[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 4 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Is there a way to block youtube ads on the tv? I have an android tv and using the youtube app is painfull... :-(

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is the solution. I've been using it for a couple of years, no ads, and almost no segways either.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

segways

Tap for spoilerSegue

[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago

this + remapping the remote youtube button seems to be the solution.

Thanks!

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago

I don't think so, since YouTube runs their ads from the same servers as the videos. You need to use an alternate front end that doesn't serve ads to begin with. One thing I used to do too was run a VPN on my router in Japan, so I would get Japanese ads instead. There were way fewer ads, I would have no idea what they were advertising, and the few ads I would get were way more entertaining.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

pi-hole may be what you're gunning for.

[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's via DNS, right? If so i don't think it will work, i'm using https://nextdns.io/ with lots of block lists and it doesn't work.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

Depends on your implementation. It does need some tweaking and using the logs to add more crap to the block list.

[–] deleted@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

You need firefox with ublock.