PiHole Ad Blocker

Everyone dislikes advertisements to some degree, I am in the unfortunate spot of disliking them so much that I do everything I can to minimise my exposure to them. To me, ads are the bane of my existence they need to stop interrupting the videos I like to watch, countless times I have had an ad interrupt a video a few minutes in, again after 10 minutes and so on until the end of a video. On PC this is easy to remedy, just a quick ad block extension and no more ads. Mobile phones, however, are quite a bit different considering that 9 times out of 10 you will be using an app. I have resorted to deleting the YouTube app from my phone because the number of times videos get drowned with ads is stressful. I originally started out as any sane human would, skipping the videos I could, and reporting other videos for being repetitive and then YouTube blocked my ability to do this, I can no longer report videos.

Moving swiftly on, if you haven’t heard of PiHole Ad Blocker then you need to leave immediately and head here. If you don’t want to leave then I suppose I can tell you a bit about it. PiHole Ad Blocker is a unique solution, instead of using browser extensions or a browser built around adblocking on every device you can set this up on one device and make this your DNS server, so long as your devices have the DNS address pointing at PiHole, you will experience a significant reduction in visible ad’s.

This solution really works and I would recommend it however, there is a caveat, at one point ended up blocking so many YouTube servers that videos would fail to load at all as YouTube (and I will stress that this is my own opinion and view and in no way should be taken as how the company operates) is just a money-grabbing sell-out that only wants to show you ads instead of an actual video. I really wouldn’t be surprised if, in a few years, the videos we watch would be filled with ads that add up to the same length as that of the video we intend to watch. I refuse to stop fighting ads, I accept them at the beginning, I accept them at the end, and I accept that some YouTubers include their own ads for the sponsors they have, they make them fun and interesting but I refuse to accept ads that have nothing to do with what I am watching, what do I care about makeup or “you could be owed compensation” oh could I now? pay up and then disappear.

Enough with my view on ads, I tend to get carried away when it comes to talking about them. If you wish to have a solution that you can essentially use anywhere this is for you, coupled with PiVPN this is a force to be reckoned with.