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Comment by sails

5 years ago

Yes. Watching youtube on a smart TV on the installed Youtube app is a nightmare. Time for a Raspberry Pi for media.

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fargo  5 years ago

if you are going for a raspberry I would suggest using it for pihole instead. That would solve the ad issue for all your devices

  • zihotki  5 years ago

    Pihole won't solve it, unfortunately. The only way to block it is to have a Chrome/FF on the media device plus adblocker. But that's very complicated topic and when I checked there were no suitable distributions and ways to get it. I ended up getting a proper PC and using it as a media server instead of pi-like devices.

  • majewsky  5 years ago

    Does pi-hole remove Youtube ads? pi-hole can only block whole ad domains. I would be surprised if Youtube deliberately served ad videos from a different domain than regular videos.

    • hysan  5 years ago

      It does not. YouTube, at least on my smart TV, serves ads from a domain that is indistinguishable from the domain that serves the video content.