Route icons.duckduckgo.com to null. Sidenote: The more I use pi-hole the more I ...

jobigoud · on July 2, 2020

Is there a difference between using pi-hole and edinting etc host on Windows? I've heard about pi-hole but I'm not sure what it does exactly.

GordonS · on July 2, 2020

This is essentially the same, but pi-hole gives you a nice UI, stats etc, and of course you can point all your machine at a pi-hole instead of editing the hosts file on each.

jb775 · on July 2, 2020

Are you able to block youtube ads using pi-hole?

moepstar · on July 2, 2020

Sadly, not anymore - used to be the case quite a while ago, but not today anymore as the ads come from the same domains the videos are streamed from.

Those simpler popover-ads which can be closed clicking an X in the upper right corner still are blocked tho...

Spilling my secret tho (and YouTube execs hate me for it!): i block YouTube in my mind and only rarely go to it if i really need to watch a video (which, for me, is rarer than i ever thought it'd be).

dredmorbius · on July 2, 2020

https://invidio.us

Or mpv (for single videos, or local playlists), or mps-youtube, or youtube-dl.

mahaganapati · on July 2, 2020

It's complicated and a quickly moving target. I use pi-hole plus local browser blocking like uBlock origin.