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Hey yall, I want to get into self-hosting. I want to start from hosting on a raspberry pi, and I am just wondering if yall have any recommendations (I've never hosted anything before, but have experience in linux and programming). Sorry if it's bit of a stupid question.

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[–] cyanide 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pihole is easy and light enough. I used to host Transmission (transmission-daemon) on a 3B+ and it worked alright for seeding around 300-500 torrents. FreshRSS also worked alongside.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Pihole my is choice too. It’s pretty good, but for some reason video ads still get through even off YouTube? Is it possible to block them?

[–] cyanide 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uBlock Origin gets rid of every single one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are not wrong, but uBlock needs to be installed on each device and only works on the browser, while pihole blocks adds across the whole network for all devices.

I have pihole but still use ublock on my personal computer

[–] cyanide 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did recommend Pihole in my original reply. But there's no way to block Youtube ads using it, as was being asked in the reply to my original reply.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah my bad mate, I didn't notice you were the same person and the way you wrote your reply made me think you misunderstood the advantages of each and we're recommending to use ublock only

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have started installing it when setting up new workstations at work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can't do that with Pihole as the ads come from the same domains, and basically need a browser extension or an app with a built in equivalent.

If you're in the UK though, it does block the ads on All4 which was a nice surprise. It even works for the TV app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am in the UK and that’s really useful to know. Thanks

[–] Fudgeknuckles98 1 points 1 year ago

Also blocks all the ads on itvx which was another pleasant surprise

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

YouTube ads don't come from a separate server. They come in the same way as the video. They pretty much need to be filtered out at the player end (e.g. browser plugins).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pihole blocks ad domains. YouTube ads are still from youtube.com, so you have to block them on the browser level with something like Ublock Origin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can block ads on your computer with basically any browser plugin adblocker.

If your phone is Android, using an app called ReVanced, which is a modified version of the official YouTube app that essentially gives you all the Premium features (including adblocking and picture-in-picture) for free. You can even sign in with your Google account and interact with playlists, comments, etc.

It has to be side-loaded, of course, since Google wouldn't allow that in the Play Store.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Use firefox with uBlock Origin to get rid of YouTube ads.