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Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblock detection? (drhyperion451.github.io)

submitted 11 months ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] Ecksell@lemmy.one 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Better question is: Can I block that crap via PiHole at the perimeter?

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Youtube ads cannot be blocked at the DNS level for years.

[–] Bademantel@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there really no way?

[–] Pohl@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sadly no. Considering how few people use dns blocking YouTube was weirdly aggressive about moving the ads to the same domain as the video content. It’s probably inconvenient for them but they wanted to make sure that the couple thousand people using dns to control ads didn’t get one over in them.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or they wanted to get ahead of it before people started selling premade PiHole boxes on Amazon

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 3 points 11 months ago

I think it's more because it's a very easy step if it's the same company serving both the content and the ads. Just serve both through the same domains and you can't use DNS to block one without blocking the other.