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Streaming Ads Are So Much Worse Than Traditional Ad Breaks (www.rogerebert.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

But the good news is now we can block ads although it's hard to setup at first especially if you want routing all network in your home
For laptop, pc, or smartphone it's easy...just install ublock (for browser) or Adguard (for whole protection)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I built a DNS proxy that filters all third-party ads, but ads for the same service (e.g. Paramount advertising its own shows) are hosted by that service, meaning they get through.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pi-hole?

[–] pacmondo 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pi-Hole is a local dns proxy that filters ads. It's exactly what was described above, and doesn't work for ads hosted on the service you want the content from. If you block those ads, you lose the content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m aware. I have two. I was asking if that’s what they built or if it was something else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yep, it was Pi-hole!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Thats not exactly good news, it's still a cat and mouse game but thankfully the ad block devs are more motivated than the streaming providers currently.