• 4grams@awful.systems
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    2 days ago

    I honestly don’t know what I’m doing right, just typical stuff I’d think.

    I have a pihole as my dns/dhcp. I use Firefox with enhanced tracking protection turned on, ublock origin and privacy badger.

    On my phone I have AdGuard (paid one time license fee).

    I still am seeing YouTube without ads. I occasionally have to reload a video, but no showstoppers yet. Only posting my setup in case it help anyone else. Hopefully it’s not instructions for them on what to attack next…

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      2 days ago

      Im not sure id consider running a pihole as “typical”. Maybe among Lemmy, but not most of the (youtube*) users. Everything besides the pihole is basically my setup with the addition of always using a vpn. I don’t see ads but get the occasional stuck loading thing and have to refresh.

      *edit forgot word.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, I’m sure my normal is not regular normal, I’m an old graybeard so my perspective is a bit off.

        But a pihole is super easy. Mine runs in a VM in Proxmox now, but I’ve run it on a raspberry pi and as a docker container as well. Well worth a shot.