Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

CactusEcho@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      segways

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      Tap for spoiler

      Segue

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  • CactusEcho@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

    Thanks!

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • CactusEcho@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨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.

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• deleted@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You need firefox with ublock.

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