How does this work? I've been considering using a Raspberry Pi for Pihole, but I've been discouraged as it wouldn't work for YouTube anyways. How I understand it is that Pihole is DNS, which just blocks certain domains. Since Youtube ads and videos are indistinguishable from a networking POV, it won't be able to block them. Am I wrong? Is there something I have misunderstood?

[–] baascus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube ads are distinguishable at the dns level for now at least. For the optimal setup I recommend docker-compose on a raspi with watchtower. This setup will automatically keep everything up to date but requires a little docker knowledge. Here’s some documentation:

https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pi hole does not block it at all for me.

Have you tried accessing youtube in incognito a couple of times with adblockers disabled?

Not saying it isn't true but I, and several other pihole users I know, still see the block without uBo

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Long time Pi-Hole user here. It is not effective in this regard. Someone please prove me wrong.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't see how it could be given that they are loading a detection script in the client.

It has nothing to do with DNS. I suspect those saying that PiHole solves it simply haven't been rolled out to yet (or are using adblockers but have forgotten)