• Dojan
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        8 months ago

        Possibly something like PiHole? Though I’ve not tried that myself.

        • @Robmart@lemm.ee
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          158 months ago

          PiHole doesn’t work on YouTube ads unfortunately. No DNS based blocker does.

          • @dan@upvote.au
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            28 months ago

            This is generally the case for any sites thay have their own ad inventory, since the ads are coming from the same servers as the site itself.

            • Aniki 🌱🌿
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              18 months ago

              Actually this is true with anything closed sourced since they are probably using their own internal, encrypted DNS look-ups.

              FOSS fixes that.

              • @dan@upvote.au
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                18 months ago

                They don’t even need to do that, since the ads come from the same domain as the app’s content. Some apps use their own DNS resolver but a lot of the time it’s for other reasons, like preventing DNS hijacking by ensuring DNSSEC records are validated.