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Grab uBlock Origin and enjoy! https://github.com/fmhy/FMHY/wiki/Streaming
They're on chrome. It's mildly their fault if they're still on there
If any Chrome users are reading this: You can just use Helium which includes uBlock Origin (not lite) and is based on Chromium.
I know there is an argument between ublock and pihole, I prefer pihole I have worked on my pihole set up to be better than ublock but ublock for ease of use I guess.
Pihole is good to affect an entire network of devices without anything needed on the device. Ublock is good to affect a single device on any network, like your phone while outside the house. I use both as well as rethink which when in DNS-only mode does basically what pihole does at the device level. Of course, each has other functionality as well with various advantages and disadvantages, but at a high level they are not exactly an either/or kind of thing necessarily.
I have been having a rough day, I think I meant AdGuard I use Ublock on device as well
Yeah, definitely more similar functionality in AdGuard vs pihole, but similar significant difference. Pihole protects only when you are home and protects all devices, even ones thst can't install ad-blocking like streaming devices and such. AdGuard protects the device even outside of your home. Doesn't hurt to use both.
But I prefer rethink over adguard since it's open-source and so it's not as easy for them to go rogue for profit and start collecting personal information. Also, I've never used adguard but the website says the free version only protects browsers and not apps. Rethink protects the whole device even in DNS-only mode. And adguard seems not to offer as much detailed control of what's blocked, though I may have missed it. Rethink you can download several kinds of blocklists and either apply the whole list or select site-by-site. But that's just my preferences.
Either way pihole and adguard serve different purposes, pihole is network level and affects more than just personal devices and adguard works even when outside of your home, but only affects personal devices.
I use wireguard to VPN into my LAN and access the DNS. I have wireguard running on a pizero 2 so the DNS is all it can do. In the not to distant future I plan on using a pi 5 for Wireguard so I will be able to access the LAN away from my LAN. Maybe I will look into rethink as well?
I’ve my pi-hole but it does not block things like YouTube ads as they’re served by the same servers as videos. Ublock works though, so both is good!