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Sick of unskippable ads on everything? Block ads from all traffic on your router with a Raspberry Pi
(www.raspberrypi.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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How good is this in reality? It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time but I wonder if it’s worth the effort?
My ad blocker already gets rid of ads on web pages so the only thing I’d really want this for is ads on YouTube. Can it get rid of those? I recently saw some stories about YouTube potentially banning users who were blocking ads. Do I run this risk?
What about ads inside apps, can it get rid of those? For example, mobile games.
I currently use a VPN, would pi-hole affect this and if so, how?
It gets rid of them from the router level vs the browser level. It blocks them before it even comes to the device. For anyone using your wifi, like wifi on your phone or guests browsing, it's amazing. Not to mention the speed boosts, as your browser doesn't have to render ads.
Also YouTube isn't "banning" people, just throwing more popups. It'll be a nightmare for YouTube and Google to do any banning. If you're concerned about being "banned from YouTube", create new Google accounts just for those purposes.
Ive been adblocking since 2005, and I also have multiple Google accounts for business.
It always makes me laugh when people go, "But what if they ban me?" Like bro they struggle with banning malicious users.
People really think Google gonna ban them for using ad blocker, are out of reality. They not gonna ban you they gonna block you from using service.