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For those who haven't heard of it, I just deployed pi-hole on my home network and it has been great. It is a DNS server that blocks ads, running on a raspberry pi.

Just point your router at it, and all clients get ad blocking. Works for mobile apps, like YouTube, too.

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Doesnt work for youtube for me though. The ads come through.

I have that issue as well and read somewhere online that it's due to youtube serving both their ads and normal videos from the same domain name, which can be distinguished by content-based blockers like uBlock but not by pihole which only looks at the domain names.

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