My first thought was “what if there’s a service outage and I can’t load advertising content from their CDN?” It’s very clearly a different location because otherwise ublock would block actual content.
If they don’t do that and just check for things like ublock client side, guess my decision to put pi hole on my network was smart.
It works inconsistently and shittily, often blocking videos as well as ads. The best solution is something like umatrix that scans the page, identifies ads, and filters those.
You can’t block youtube advertisements with pihole. At least not reliably, and at least not “in video” ads. It’s hitting a moving target, and probably not worth the effort. You also will probably be able to block some small chunk of them, but far from all youtube ads. And even then, they’ll eventually just change it so that if you try, it’ll break your access to youtube videos, too. Of course, the current pihole regex to block ads also already blocks some videos, too, anyway.
This is exactly what they will do, yes.
With carrier grade NATs, they’d block a bunch of people, even subscribers…
This has been an issue with carrier grade NATs and IP banning for…ever, though. It hasn’t stopped IP banning from being a thing.
My first thought was “what if there’s a service outage and I can’t load advertising content from their CDN?” It’s very clearly a different location because otherwise ublock would block actual content.
If they don’t do that and just check for things like ublock client side, guess my decision to put pi hole on my network was smart.
Pihole doesn’t work with youtube ads though, unless I missed something?
It works inconsistently and shittily, often blocking videos as well as ads. The best solution is something like umatrix that scans the page, identifies ads, and filters those.
You can’t block youtube advertisements with pihole. At least not reliably, and at least not “in video” ads. It’s hitting a moving target, and probably not worth the effort. You also will probably be able to block some small chunk of them, but far from all youtube ads. And even then, they’ll eventually just change it so that if you try, it’ll break your access to youtube videos, too. Of course, the current pihole regex to block ads also already blocks some videos, too, anyway.
Can’t wait until they find out about dynamic IPs
Never understood IP bans. 2 minutes to restart my router and I’m there again!
It’s why they’re not really done for users any more. Still very useful for blocking malicious servers or networks though.
Oh no! I’ll have to restart my router and come back 60 seconds later with another IP! Let them block the poor rando who gets my IP next.
(They won’t do this for exactly that reason)