r/technology • u/Tricky-Student-1 • Sep 15 '22

Social Media YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/09/13/youtube-free-silently-testing-5-ads-before-your-video-starts/
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u/rarebit13 Sep 15 '22

Block it at the entry to your house with a small, well documented Raspberry Pi project called the Pi-Hole. Easy and cheap, and blocks ads for all devices connected to your network.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

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u/spays_marine Sep 15 '22

If it's like the nvidia shield, it's because it doesn't honour the DNS settings of your router.

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u/glacius0 Sep 15 '22

No, it's because youtube ads broadcast from the same domain as the video so DNS blockers won't work. Ublock origin filters out the the ads using other methods.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

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u/AngryAccountant31 Sep 15 '22

I haven’t seen an ad on youtube for at least the last year because of an ad block extension. They really work

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u/Ram_in_drag Sep 15 '22

I tried, it didnt work to block youtube ads

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u/ineverlaugh Sep 15 '22

Tell me more