• nicolairathjen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How does this work? I’ve been considering using a Raspberry Pi for Pihole, but I’ve been discouraged as it wouldn’t work for YouTube anyways. How I understand it is that Pihole is DNS, which just blocks certain domains. Since Youtube ads and videos are indistinguishable from a networking POV, it won’t be able to block them. Am I wrong? Is there something I have misunderstood?

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        1 year ago

        Pi hole does not block it at all for me.

        Have you tried accessing youtube in incognito a couple of times with adblockers disabled?

        Not saying it isn’t true but I, and several other pihole users I know, still see the block without uBo

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            I don’t see how it could be given that they are loading a detection script in the client.

            It has nothing to do with DNS. I suspect those saying that PiHole solves it simply haven’t been rolled out to yet (or are using adblockers but have forgotten)