>The hardest to kick for me now is YouTube Premium.. And in AU it's like $33/month AUD, but I just can't stand ads.
Any reason you're not just running network level AdGuard and Firefox with Ublock Origin to block all ads on your home network? Even just FF+UBO would block YouTube ads.
The selfhosted subreddit is also a really good resource to use for interesting things to run.
DNS blockers aren't good enough to block all ads. Especially YouTube. Plus, many browsers will ignore DNS without configuration and same for phone apps. While this can be fine for me it's not for everyone else in my family nor guests. And that's before we talk about Apple...
If anyone has a solution I'd love to learn.
I use Invidious whitout a a hassle, and firefox with ublock when I can not.
For android there is New Pipe and some forks.
I prefer to pay my yt loved channels than ser a fucking add
You misunderstand the goal.
That. That is the problem we're looking at.I already use Firefox on /my computer/. We were talking about a pihole or some /network/ solution. How do I block ads on my friends computer when they get into my network without touching their computer? How do I block ads on my TV? You'd have to do something like deep packet inspection. Devices I fully control I can trivially solve this but there are plenty of devices I don't, including ones I own.
And for Android, you know you can use revanced, right? You can recompile the app and others to get more control
If you have a tv with WebOS there is an ad-removed youtube app you can load. Doesn't solve your friend's problem but might solve part of the problem.
I don't. Sure, I can root my TV and certainly there's exploits for that. But honestly that example isn't the problem and is much more easily solved by treating my TV as a monitor.
Ublock Origin is sufficient to block all ads on youtube.
You're misunderstanding the problem.
We were talking DNS blockers. The context matters. I already use ublock but I can't do ublock on my pihole. I can't do it on an iPhone (I can use orion browser but YouTube quality is low). I can't do it on my TV. I can't do it on my friends computer that visits my house. And so on. I appreciate you trying to help but you're misunderstanding the problem and honestly I don't know how someone could be on HN and not know about ublock.
uBlock Origin Lite for Chrome blocks YouTube ads perfectly fine. On Android you can block ads through ReVanced, on Android TV - SmartTube.
YouTube is a bit of a problem. I feel like it costs about double of what it should be, but I also think that content creators should be paid, and I absolutely hate ads.
If you use Android. On iOS, even Pihole with isn’t enough.
The Yattee client for Invidious works great on iOS, or the Vinegar/Baking Soda browser extensions that replace the YouTube player with a basic (ad-free) HTML5 player work also.