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• Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just purchased a new travel router that will have options for ad blocking built in. Would that block ads on any device sharing that connexion? TV, phone, PC, smart fridge,…?

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  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those will not block YT ads.

    They’ll block ads at a DNS level, but YouTube ads are delivered in video stream.

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    • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those will not block YT ads.

      This is correct

      but YouTube ads are delivered directly into the video stream.

      This is false

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      • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And the reason is that those ad-blockers are based on DNS block lists, and YouTube ads are served by the same servers that also serve videos.

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      • HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        this is false

        So far

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    • ragas@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Youtubes ads are not delivered into the videostream. That would mean reencodingevery video for every user and would need an insane amount of computing power.

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      • diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why would you need to re encode when you can literally pause one stream swap in the ad and then swap back in the paused one in the same response

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      • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You actually don’t have to, on account of how adaptive video streaming works. It’s fully possible to serve a few segments of ad content mid-stream.

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  • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly, it varies. Businesses are starting to get wise to DNS adblockers, and are serving more ads from their primary domain (this is part of why you can’t block YouTube ads with a DNS blocker anymore - you can’t block them at the DNS level without blocking all of YouTube).

    You’ll see a noticeable downtick in phone ads from web browsing and ad-sponsored games, but something like a TV or fridge will probably be unaffected because the ads will be served directly from the same host as the content. You’ll see fewer ads but far from zero.

    Also why are you connecting your smart fridge to a travel router? Do you travel with a smart fridge?

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    • LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fridges have ads…?

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    • Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No XD i was just wondering what kind of ads it could block. It will be my dedicated VR router when not in my main setup and i’m wonder what else i could do with it.

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      • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just FYI you don’t need a special router to block ads on the DNS level, you just need to point the DNS settings in your current router to a server that does filtering. Theres a couple of public ones set up to do that for you but you can also point them to a LAN IP and roll your own DNS server (like Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home)

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depends on how they’re served but mostly, yes

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    • brandon@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But, topically, will not block YouTube ads

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  • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not youtube ads, sadly, if they are blocking based on domain names. For YouTube, you can use pipepipe, which do block ads as far as I have seen.

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• Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m just imagining how spammy it would be to see this reply on every comment that has more than 69 upvotes.

    Yup. At one point that number was 69 in order to get to where it is now. Good job.

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    • Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  and only a minor inconvience as youtube delays the video for adblockers, of course they will try to make that permanent somehow.

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