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Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users

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Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users

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Search giant says delays not specific to any browser – just those evading advert breaks. YMMV
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    I wish PiHole wasn’t so absolute dogshit about DNS requests from outside the local subnet, might use it then

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      I’m going to try ad guard today… That way I can keep my DHCP

      Update: adguard does not block YouTube ads.

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        You can use PiHole without their DHCP.

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          Oh yeah? I didn’t know. I thought I read on the pihole website that if you use pihole on a system on your network, you have to use static ips and cannot use DHCP.

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            Nope. You can use whatever DHCP server you’d like; you just have to set the pihole as your DNS server in DHCP.

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              I’ll relook at it, thanks.

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      Permit all origins, allow all destinations. In the settings.

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        Tried that, it just reverts back after a few weeks :/

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          Open an issue on the forums if it hasn’t already been fixed.

          Mine doesn’t revert.

          What OS/computer?

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            Tried it bare metal on a Pi 4 and as a VM. I have my LAN using the 10.0.0.0/8 space and I couldn’t have DNS breaking all the time

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              And it would set itself back?

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                Yep. Default is to not reply to DNS outside the subnet it’s in, and it would randomly flip back to that

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                  Open a bug report; that shouldn’t happen.

                  Also, think about running two DNS servers

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